06-07-2024, 10:53 AM
(06-07-2024, 10:49 AM)michaelsean Wrote: Maybe this is too simplistic, but checks and balances. Congress and the President can pass laws that govern this kind of thing.
They can, but they won't. If Congress passed laws to govern the courts on this regard then people would go "but wait, don't you all make your own ethics rules, too?" Of course, SCOTUS could also end up ruling that Congress does not have the authority to check the court in that way.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
