Recent controversies have sparked calls for a defined code of ethics to be imposed and enforced on the justices.
“It raises a question – not so much of corruption as such, but of whether disclosures, our current system of disclosures, is adequate to the task,” Kathleen Clark, a professor at Washington University in St. Louis Law School who specializes in government ethics, told the outlet.
Barrett sold the home to Brendan Wilson, then a Washington D.C.-based lawyer, for $905,000, a transaction that she was not required to disclose on her annual financial forms. Federal regulations exclude sales of the “personal residence of the filer and the filer’s spouse” from financial matters judges are mandated to disclose.
“The court, frankly, it faces a kind of legitimacy crisis because of the really dire weaknesses of its ethics,” Clark said. “It has the opportunity to address that legitimacy crisis by, you know, stepping up its ethics game – imposing on itself and then abiding by additional disclosure operations.”that Wilson “really could not be further removed from Supreme Court litigation” and explained that many people involved with the group contribute to the briefs they submit to the Supreme Court.
Wilson’s biography on the initiative’s page says his role covers “the transactional component of the Religious Liberty Clinic,” and a recent job posting from the group specified that the transactional component includes legal advising for religiously affiliated organizations.’s interview requests, nor did Barrett respond to the network’s request for comment.
Barrett’s real estate transaction makes her the third member of the Supreme Court to have made money from property sales with powerful conservative figures or people connected to legal advocacy groups writing the Court.that Justice Neil Gorsuch sold a vacation home to the CEO of a major law firm who has argued before the court and did not disclose the buyer’s name.
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