What happens when the highest tribunal in the land is itself under suspicion? The US is asking itself this question as its right-wing Supreme Court faces a tide of sleaze allegations ahead of the 2024 election 🔎 Analysis by michael2day
The supposedly impartial Supreme Court justices rank even lower than Congress’s squabbling, grand-standing politicians.
“It’s shameful. I know federal judges who tell me they would not dare accept dinner from someone,” says Cohen. “This, coupled with the Crow episode,” says Prof Geyh, “bespeak a justice who is, at a minimum, insufficiently attuned to his ethical responsibilities.” Questions have been raised about the court’s chief John Roberts’ wife’s work as a legal recruiter. Jane Roberts was reportedly paid millions of dollars for placing lawyers at firms, including some with business before the Supreme Court.
He notes, however, that the court’s recent actions – particularly on abortion – appear “to be out of step with majority popular opinion, a gap that hurt the Republicans in the 2022 midterm elections and which may well be an electoral liability in 2024”.
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