Top Dem plots tying SCOTUS funding to ‘enforceable' ethics code amid Thomas, Alito controversies
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A top Democratic appropriator is looking at renewing an effort to prevent Supreme Court operational funds from being accessed until the court implements an enforceable ethics code.
The Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government Chairman Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., told Fox News Digital on Thursday about a proposal he advanced last year "to fence [off] some of the Supreme Court funding," except for money for protection. Julia Johnson is a politics writer for Fox News Digital and Fox Business, leading coverage of the U.S. Senate. She was previously a politics reporter at the Washington Examiner.
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His idea at the time was to fence off some of the court's operational funding "until the Supreme Court implemented an enforceable code of ethics similar to that that applies to lower courts," he said.
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