TonyskiJul 7, 2023
Robert Reich
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Chief Justice Roberts refusing to testify in a hearing on Supreme Court ethics tells you quite a lot about the state of ethics on the Supreme Court.
May 3, 2023 at 12:37amWeb
Show threadAlexander KarnMay 3, 2023
@rbreich Separation of powers does not mean fully unaccountable. True for presidents, true for justices. #democracy #civics
Show threadStu Duerson, machina exo deusMay 3, 2023

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Robert, with your JD you are in a position to prove me wrong, but I contend the ethical ambiguity within the law profession starts in law school. Disassembling test cases so that one can argue either side displaces ethical judgement of clients, and there is not, at least I'm not aware that there ever has been, a senior level course that attempts to repair the ethical 'indignation', if you will, of the student. Thus, a lawyer leaves law school with a set of professional standards, but also the knowledge that unethical practice is rampant, and as experience will show them, goes quite often unpunished. Sometimes even positively critiqued.

The problem starts in law school. That's where the solution must start, too. Oh, and it's just flat too late for this Supreme Court. They must be adjusted now by the other two branches.

Show threadDeeStephoMay 3, 2023
@rbreich it says a lot. The 3 branches are to check each other. So neither gets to escape some level of oversight by the other. The executive does the least oversight of the other two, but appoints. Judicial holds the legislative and executive to the constitution. Legislative hauls in the executive to answer and must have some level of scrutiny over judicial. Legislative should set the job descriptions for judicial and executive. Executive can enforce judicial decisions.
Show threadDeeStephoMay 3, 2023
@rbreich So—judicial wrong to want to be the only branch with zilch oversight. Independence is independence in decision-making. Not independence from conduct rules, retirement rules, government contracting rules or legislative appropriations. What if legislative said judicial budget will only be 100k because you judicial can’t infringe on our purse string powers? Then they’d be SOL and the country would fall due to loss of a stool leg. The branches must cooperate to check and balance!
Show threadtoxtethogradyMay 3, 2023
@rbreich They have lost all respectability...
Show threadVHaschMay 3, 2023

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Wait until you hear which side the FBI was on January 6.

It's pretty clear why they "didn't know" what was going on at the Capitol and never showed up.

Show threadPamBergMay 3, 2023
@rbreich Did anyone really think Roberts would appear before the congress and Scold his boyz for ethics? Hell, his own wife is a direct infringement