Justices traded memos about potential ethics rules so secretive last year that they reportedly kept them in envelopes and off email servers.

The United States Supreme Court revealed what some justices touted as a landmark new ethics code last year.

But critics noted that the scandal-plagued institution’s new rules lacked any enforcement mechanisms, making them essentially a 14-page long list of suggestions.

A new leak of secret discussions from behind the bench, published in The New York Times Tuesday, reveals which justices fought to keep the code of conduct toothless.

The Times reported that the court’s nine justices started passing ultra-confidential memos, kept in paper envelopes and off email servers, back and forth at the end of last summer.

  • paraphrand@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    20 days ago

    If these people are gonna be shitheads, they should be transparent in all the ways they are shitheads while serving.

    “We already knew” is a terrible reaction to any confirmation of any information that is made public regarding government activity.

    • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      20 days ago

      If anything at all was going to be done about it I’d agree with you.

      But since we’re powerless it just feels like rubbing our noses in the fact that there’s a different set of rules for the rulers.