Durbin pressed Roberts in per­son to enact bind­ing Supreme Court ethics code

Sen­ate Judi­cia­ry Com­mit­tee Chair­man Dick Durbin (D‑IL) direct­ly pressed Chief Jus­tice John Roberts on the need for enforce­able ethics reforms dur­ing the Supreme Court’s semi­an­nu­al Judi­cial Con­fer­ence on Tues­day.
Durbin, who has long advo­cat­ed a bind­ing ethics code for jus­tices, expressed his con­cerns to Roberts dur­ing the twice-annu­al meet­ing of the Judi­cial Con­fer­ence, the judiciary’s pol­i­cy­mak­ing body chaired by Roberts. Durbin renewed his argu­ments that recent­ly adopt­ed ethics guide­lines for the high court remain inad­e­quate due to the absence of enforce­ment mech­a­nisms, a source famil­iar with the event told the Wash­ingt …