![]() ![]() However, it's still being left up to the judges on the panel to enforce the code, so it leads one to wonder how effective it will be,” Ben Michael, an attorney with Michael & Associates, said in an email message. The code of ethics is an attempt to govern the Court. “The Supreme Court, while being the highest court in the land, has virtually no oversight itself. It’s not unethical to break the law it’s illegal,” Rabbi Yonason Goldson, author of Grappling With Gray: An Ethical Handbook for Personal Success and Business Prosperity, said via email. To say that ‘a justice should respect and comply with the law’ is redundant, imprecise, and belittling. The Court’s new code is “a muddle of law, compliance, and ethics. As such, it is hard to imagine how this code would actually make the court any more ethical,” Creel said. ![]() ![]() “Overall, this document is best described as vague and modestly proscriptive, with seemingly no real consequences for noncompliance. “Beginning the code with such a dismissive attitude no way makes it seem like the code itself will actually change the way they operate,” he commented. If that is the case, then the court must necessarily believe they were already operating within the parameters of what the following code would allow, making it superfluous in their eyes,” Nicholas Creel, an assistant professor of business law and ethics at Georgia College and State University, observed via email. “In essence, the court opens by making the claim that the recent spate of scandals which have made the public question the integrity of the court were not actually scandals at all. ![]()
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