This ethics program looks at the Supreme Court and the double standards it employs in ethics rules and guardrails.
This ethics program looks at the Supreme Court and the double standards it employs in ethics rules and guardrails. Sampling left- and right-leaning justices so that ethics scrutiny is fairly brought against all, the program traces the history of ethics regulation of judges, looks at the current ethics codes, and looks specifically at case studies of lower court judges who are found to have crossed ethics lines, but then compares those ethics case studies to our Supreme Court justices who do not face the same enforceable ethics standards.
In one case, the Supreme Court found a lower court judge to have so crossed ethics lines that he violated due process in a case, but then, in a similar case when the tables are turned, the Supreme Court justices do not even need to recuse themselves.
Given the bipartisan crisis in the court, the program looks at pending potential ethics reforms in both Congress and interviews with Justice Kagan, as well as an examination of the Supreme Court’s argument that it can be trusted to be left alone.
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Founding Partner at One, LLP
Peter Afrasiabi is a founding partner at One LLP and focuses his practice on copyright, patent, trademark, and entertainment litigation. In addition, Peter is a professor and the Director of the Appellate Clinic at the University of California, Irvine School of Law. Peter graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Southern California Gould School of Law.
