Supreme Court Ethics Act

Bill: 116-s-393
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Murphy, Christopher [D-CT]
Introduced: 2019-02-07
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Federal appellate courts

Federal district courts

Government ethics and transparency, public corruption

Judges

Supreme Court
Latest action: action_date: 2019-02-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Summaries:
action_date: 2019-02-07
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><b>Supreme Court Ethics Act</b></p> <p>This bill establishes a new statutory requirement for the Judicial Conference of the United States (Judicial Conference) to issue a judicial code of conduct for judges and justices of U.S. courts (including Justices of the Supreme Court).</p> <p>Currently, the Judicial Conference issues a code of conduct for judges of U.S. courts (but not for Justices of the Supreme Court).</p>

tv_txt: II 116th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 393 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES February 7, 2019 Mr. Murphy (for himself, Mr. Blumenthal , Mr. Booker , Mr. Casey , Mr. Coons , Ms. Duckworth , Mr. Durbin , Mrs. Gillibrand , Ms. Harris , Ms. Hirono , Ms. Klobuchar , Mr. Leahy , Mr. Markey , Mr. Menendez , Mr. Sanders , Mr. Van Hollen , Ms. Warren , and Mr. Whitehouse ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary A BILL To amend title 28, United States Code, to provide for a code of conduct for justices and judges of the courts of the United States.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Supreme Court Ethics Act . 2. Code of conduct (a) In general Chapter 57 of title 28, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: 964. Code of conduct Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this section, the Judicial Conference of the United States shall issue a code of conduct, which applies to each justice and judge of the courts of the United States, except that the code of conduct may include provisions that are applicable only to certain categories of judges or justices. . (b) Technical and conforming amendment The table of sections for chapter 57 of title 28, United States Code, is amended by adding after the item related to section 963 the following: 964. Code of conduct. .