Legal Ethics Bonus Content No. 5 - SCOTUS Adopts Ethics Code - My Top Three Concerns (11.13.23)

Breaking news - the U.S. Supreme Court *finally* adopts an (unenforceable) ethics code for itself

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Today, the Supreme Court issued the following statement along with a fourteen page Code of Conduct for Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States.

You can read the full Code here.

Here’s a survey of quick takes from X/Twitter, all clearly underwhelmed by the Court’s gesture: