Supreme Court Ethics and Investigations Act

The bill would amend title 28 of the U.S. Code to authorize the Chief Justice to establish an Office of Ethics Counsel within the Supreme Court, which would advise justices and their spouses on financial disclosure, gifts, political activity, recusal, and unauthorized disclosure of Court documents, and would require annual reporting to the Judiciary Committees. It would also authorize an Office of Investigative Counsel that could review and investigate ethics complaints against justices, including complaints filed by specified congressional leaders, issue and enforce subpoenas, and submit findings and recommendations to the Chief Justice or, where the Chief Justice is the subject, to the most senior associate justice. The bill text provided is truncated, so the remainder of its provisions could not be reviewed.

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