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SCOTUS Lawyer: Nope, No Ethical Problem Here!
Lawyer clutches pearls at the very idea?
By Susie Madrak — November 29, 2022
A lawyer for the Supreme Court stonewalled questions about ethics issues at the court in his reply to a letter from two top congressional Democrats. Via HuffPost:
Supreme Court legal counsel Ethan Torrey replied to the inquiry from Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.), each in charge of oversight of the courts in their respective chambers.
The two congressional investigators had pressed Chief Justice John Roberts to answer questions about how the court handles ethical breaches after news reports revealed a pressure campaign by the Christian conservative group Faith & Action that allegedly resulted in Justice Samuel Alito revealing the outcome of his 2014 decision in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby prior to its release.
https://crooksandliars.com/2022/11/scotus-lawyer-nope-no-ethical-problem-here