• Nightwingdragon@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The current Supreme Court is made up of 9 people who have lifetime appointments, no oversight, and no viable way to hold a stray judge accountable.

    Until this changes, any “code of ethics” is completely worthless and unenforceable, and therefore isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on. Anything like this without an independent method of oversight and enforcement isn’t a “law” or “code” that will be rigidly enforced, but merely a set of guidelines that can be safely ignored the nanosecond it becomes inconvenient.

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      1 year ago

      Technically, a judge or justice can be impeached and/or removed, but I get what you mean

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        1 year ago

        Yeah that’s why I said no viable way. It’s the only actual way they can be removed, but the chances of that happening anytime in the foreseeable future are virtually non-existent.