Justice Kagan on SCOTUS’ Code of Conduct: Rules Usually Have Enforcement Mechanisms, This One Does Not

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KAGAN: “I think for the most part, the code of conduct that we put out is a good one. I wouldn't have signed on if I didn't think that the essential rules were good rules. And there has been some criticism of those rules, that the rules themselves depart in certain ways from the rules that apply to other judges, but I think that we made good judgments about when those departures were appropriate, given different features of the Supreme Court. So I think that the rules that we put out are good ones. I think that the thing that -- that can be criticized is, you know, rules usually have enforcement mechanisms attached to them, and this one, this set of rules, does not.”