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Photo by Casey Atkins/Campaign Legal Center. On May 2, the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary held a hearing on Supreme Court ethics reform. CLC’s Vice President, General Counsel, and Senior Director of Ethics Kedric Payne was one of five witnesses providing testimony for the hearing.
- Senators Agree on Need For Transparency But Disagree on Path Forward
- Republicans Defend Thomas, Accuse Democrats of 'Selective Outrage'
- Democrats Want Independent Panel of Retired Judges to Police The Court
- Roberts Declines to Appear, Responds in Writing
There was bipartisan agreement that the Supreme Court needs to be more forthcoming about its conduct and the guidelines justices abide by. "I, too, have expressed a desire for the court to be more transparent, to have rules the public can relate to," Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, the ranking member of the committee, said in his opening statement....
Graham accused Democrats of "cherry-picking" instances of travel and gifts to conservative justices to undermine confidence in the court. He listed all-expense-paid trips and monetary awards given to various justices, including Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor, over the years. "This is an unseemly effort by the Democratic left to destroy the...
"The justices have been playing out of bounds," declared Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, a Rhode Island Democrat who has sponsored legislation to require adoption of an ethics code, mandate terms for when a justice must recuse from a case, and tighten financial disclosure requirements for members of the high court. Retired federal judge Jeremy Fogel, who ...
Absent from the hearing was Chief Justice John Roberts, despite Durbin's invitation to Roberts -- or any other justice -- to appear before the committee. Roberts instead briefly responded to questions in a written statement, in which he highlighted the role of the Judicial Conference's "Committee on Financial Disclosure" in helping the justices sta...
Sep 14, 2023 · Image CLC's Kedric Payne speaking at the 20th anniversary of the city of Atlanta's Ethics Office in Atlanta, Georgia. The city of Atlanta’s Ethics Office recently celebrated its 20-year anniversary.
CLC’s Kedric Payne Testifies at Hearing on Overdue Supreme Court Ethics Reform | Campaign Legal Center. By. Delaney Marsco. May 4, 2022. Issues. Ethics. Kedric Payne testifying before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on May 3, 2022. Photo by Marta Rusek/Campaign Legal Center.
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May 3, 2023 · From left, Jeremy Fogel, Michael Mukasey, Kedric Payne, Thomas Dupree and Amanda Frost testify during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Supreme Court ethics reform on Capitol Hill on Tuesday ...
Jun 15, 2023 · June 15, 2023, 8:00 AM UTC. Congress Misfires With Attacks on Nonpartisan Ethics Office (1) By Kedric Payne. Kedric Payne. Campaign Legal Center. The Campaign Legal Center’s Kedric Payne says the nonpartisan Office of Congressional Ethics is very effective, and suggests how to protect this important office from congressional efforts to ...
