$30M to Brennan Center Inspired by Supreme Court (Lack of) Ethics - LER Bonus Content No. 15 (07.24.24)
A historic gift from a donor giving to court-related ethics issues for the first time. Will others follow?
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Welcome to your fifteenth installment of bonus content from the Legal Ethics Roundup. In addition to the free weekly roundup every Monday morning, I regularly post bonus content for paid subscribers. However, for this bonus post I removed the paywall. Please feel free to share it widely with others.
Readers of the LER know that US Supreme Court ethics issues have been a constant focus. The topic recently was named Theme #1 in LER No. 51 looking back at the past year, and the last Bonus Content post contained news about the justices’ financial disclosures along with proposals for reform from Gabe Roth (Fix the Court) and Josh Blackman (South Texas).
Today’s Bonus Content announces news about Supreme Court ethics we’ve not seen here at the LER or in my career spanning nearly two decades as a legal ethics scholar. The Brennan Center for Justice (NYU) received a historic $30 million gift to address ethics issues from business executive and philanthropist Jim Kohlberg, chairman and co…