Have you ever felt frustrated by “legalese,” the use of highly technical, complex, archaic, and sometimes redundant terms in legal documents such as statutes, contracts, policies, and codes of ethics?
On Monday, the Supreme Court released a unanimously agreed-upon “Code of Conduct” that promotes transparency and clarity. This release directly responded to mounting outside pressures over the past ...
Newly released ethics guidance for the federal judiciary makes clear that judges can speak out against “illegitimate forms of ...
The Supreme Court announced Monday it was adopting a code of conduct amid growing criticism about justices’ perceived ethics conflicts — but with legal experts and Democratic lawmakers saying the code ...
ProPublica reported April 6 that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas accepted tens of thousands of dollars in gifts from a Texas billionaire without including them on financial disclosures. The ...
The Supreme Court’s announcement of its first code of conduct Monday did little to slow the Democratic drive to pass legislation to bind the justices with a set of tighter ethics rules. Democrats and ...
In a legislative session that should focus on the state’s most pressing problems, Louisiana lawmakers are pursuing a wide-ranging rewrite of the state’s ethics code that would whittle away at the ...
Recent concerns about leaks of US Supreme Court decisions and Justice Clarence Thomas’s refusal to recuse himself in a case that might involve connections to his wife, Virginia Thomas, have spurred ...
FEBRUARY. WELL, HAPPENING RIGHT NOW. LAWMAKERS ARE IN BATON ROUGE WITH A BUSY DAY IN THE LEGISLATIVE SESSION AND ONE BILL BEING CONSIDERED COULD CHANGE ETHICS LAWS AND ALSO OFFER MORE PROTECTIONS FOR ...