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Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said that she was supportive of proposals to implement an “enforceable code” of ethics for Supreme Court justices in an interview that aired Sunday.

“A binding code of ethics is pretty standard for judges, and so I guess the question is, ‘is the Supreme Court any different?’” Jackson asked during an interview with “CBS News Sunday Morning” about her new memoir, adding, “I guess I have not seen a persuasive reason as to why the [Supreme] Court is different than the other courts.”

The issue of ethics on the Supreme Court has entered the public sphere in recent years as stories have emerged about justices not disclosing certain lavish gifts on their ethics disclosure forms.

For example, Justice Clarence Thomas accepted lavish gifts and trips from GOP mega-donor Harlan Crow. None of these were officially disclosed before ProPublica’s reporting in 2023 on the trips and Crow.

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