LETTERS: Supreme Court needs ethics code

A person walks by flowers that are in the shape of a uterus outside the Supreme Court on Friday, April 21, 2023, in Washington. The Supreme Court has preserved women's access to a drug used in the most common method of abortion, rejecting lower-court restrictions while a lawsuit continues. The justices on Friday granted emergency requests from the Biden administration and New York-based Danco Laboratories, maker of the drug mifepristone. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

May 16, 2023 07:05PM

Ethics and the court

Editor:

As the daughter of a U.S. history teacher, I grew up with a strong respect for the Constitution and the institutions it created — the presidency, the Congress, and the Supreme Court. Supreme Court decisions impact every facet of American life. Because of this, justices must be held to the highest ethical standards. When Americans see recent revelations in the news, they wonder why the Supreme Court is not governed by a code of ethics, as are the lower courts.

It’s time for Congress to pass a Supreme Court code of ethics to bring legitimacy back to the Court.

Leslie Paoletti, Durham

LETTERS: Supreme Court needs ethics code

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