Issuing an “unsupported” code of ethics for US Supreme Court justices

According to the report of the international group of Fars news agency, the Supreme Court of the United States of America issued its first official code of ethics, which governs the behavior of the nine judges of this court, after months of external pressure due to the disclosure of some The facts about the luxurious and very expensive trips of the judges and their receipt of large financial gifts from the rich benefactors of this country were announced.

that the new policies announced which have been approved by all the judges of the Supreme Court and which came into effect on Monday, do not impose any enforcement mechanism on the judges to adhere to these principles and in fact fully comply with the new laws. judges.

This action has been taken while the judges of the Supreme Court of the United States are the only people in this country who have no ethical control over their behavior and Their performance does not exist. However, there is now a lot of pressure from Democrats in the Senate to pass a code of conduct for these judges.

This charter is not A page contains sections according to which legislators should not allow foreign relations to influence their official behavior and judgments.

In addition to this ethical charter, The opinion sets limits on judges’ involvement in fundraising while also reiterating those limits to prohibit accepting gifts. In this charter, it is stated that judges should not under any circumstances use judicial resources and their employees for unofficial activities. They have stated that they have been adhering to ethical standards for a long time and stated that the criticism of the court regarding judges’ ethics is the product of people’s misunderstandings and mistakes, not any mistakes on the part of judges.

After this, in the form of an unsigned statement that they wrote next to this code of ethics, they also stated: We issue this code of conduct (code of ethics) to clear up misunderstandings, and in principle, this code represents the compilation of principles to a large extent. is that we have considered it as the ruler of our behavior for a long time.

For a long time, under the influence of some issues, the performance of US Supreme Court judges has been questioned by many people. Some of the revelations about the judges’ very expensive trips, along with their hidden financial ties to wealthy benefactors, made the issue even more sensitive.

Now, many liberal American critics They are not satisfied with the considered moral code and have stated that the code in question is more of a suggestion than a binding and applicable instruction.

According to the latest poll by Gallup, which was published on October 2, the public trust of the American people in the judges of the Supreme Court has reached its lowest level.

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