118th Congress Law
S. 325: Supreme Court Ethics Act
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Summary
This bill establishes a new statutory requirement for the Judicial Conference of the United States to issue a judicial code of conduct for judges and justices of U.S. courts, including Justices of the Supreme Court. Currently, the Judicial Conference issues a code of conduct for judges of U.S. courts (but not for Justices of the Supreme Court).
To enforce the code of conduct for Justices of the Supreme Court, the bill requires the Supreme Court to appoint an ethics investigations counsel. The ethics investigations counsel must
- adopt rules to enforce the code of conduct, including a process to receive public complaints of potential violations;
- investigate complaints; and
- issue an annual public report describing the complaints and the steps taken to address the complaints.
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Finally, the bill requires a Justice of the Supreme Court to publicly disclose the reasons for disqualifying himself or herself in a proceeding or the reasons for denying a motion to disqualify himself or herself in a proceeding.
Written by the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress.
Roll calls
No roll call votes have been held on this bill.
Amendments
No amendments were offered to this bill.
Cosponsors
- Sherrod Brown D-OHOriginal
- Tammy Baldwin D-WIOriginal
- Richard Blumenthal D-CTOriginal
- Cory Booker D-NJOriginal
- Benjamin Cardin D-MDOriginal
- Thomas Carper D-DEOriginal
- Robert Casey D-PAOriginal
- Catherine Cortez Masto D-NVOriginal
- Richard Durbin D-ILOriginal
- Tammy Duckworth D-ILOriginal
- Dianne Feinstein D-CAOriginal
- John Fetterman D-PAOriginal
- John Hickenlooper D-COOriginal
- Mazie Hirono D-HIOriginal
- Amy Klobuchar D-MNOriginal
- Ben Luján D-NMOriginal
- Edward Markey D-MAOriginal
- Patty Murray D-WAOriginal
- Jeff Merkley D-OROriginal
- Gary Peters D-MIOriginal
- Bernard Sanders I-VTOriginal
- Debbie Stabenow D-MIOriginal
- Jeanne Shaheen D-NHOriginal
- Tina Smith D-MNOriginal
- Chris Van Hollen D-MDOriginal
- Ron Wyden D-OROriginal
- Martin Heinrich D-NM
- Peter Welch D-VT
- Michael Bennet D-CO
- Brian Schatz D-HI
Who scored on this bill
- 1Christopher Murphy SponsorDrew cross-party cosponsors, reached a cosponsor milestone, introduced3 events+12
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History
- Introduced in the Senate by Christopher Murphy.
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- Introduced in Senate
- Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.