Chief Justice John Roberts considering creating an ethics code for SCOTUS

[Borealis]

https://www.courthousenews.com/chief-justice-roberts-weighs-ethics-code-for-high-court/

WASHINGTON (CN) – At a hearing Thursday on the high court’s budget, Justice Elena Kagan told lawmakers that Chief Justice John Roberts is looking into the possibility of drafting a
code of conduct that applies only to Supreme Court justices.

“That is something that we have not discussed as a conference yet and that has pros and cons I’m sure, but it’s something that’s being thought very seriously about,” Kagan told a
House subcommittee.

Supreme Court justices are currently not legally bound by the same code of conduct as all other federal judges, though a bill the House has been debating this week would bring the
justices under the code’s purview. 

Lawmakers also asked Alito and Kagan about preventing sexual harassment on the high court, an issue both justices said the court is taking seriously.

[Jaguar]

It's one of those things you think should be implicit with the job, but there's always someone or something that tests the implicit rules that explicit rules need to be created.

[Sableye]

How could anyone ever think participating in murky partisan closed door fundraising efforts could color a judge's perfectly non partisan behavior?!