Supreme Court ethics hearing

This week, the Senate is holding a Supreme Court ethics hearing as many question the financial dealings of some of the justices …

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00:00As the sketchy financial transactions and suspicious personal relationships of Supreme

00:04Court justices continue to surface, Congress is starting to question the legitimacy of the

00:09country's highest court. So what was the latest revelation and is anything expected to change?

00:14Brute can explain in less than 60 seconds. According to a whistleblower, Chief Justice

00:18John Roberts' wife, Jane Roberts, has pocketed over $10 million from elite law firms that she

00:25worked with during her career as a recruiter. And some of those firms eventually found

00:29themselves arguing cases before the Supreme Court. This allegation has reignited calls for tighter

00:34ethical guidelines for Supreme Court justices. Currently, members of the Supreme Court do not

00:39follow the ethics code that guides every other federal court member. But a few lawmakers have

00:44introduced bills that would force SCOTUS to adopt and establish its own set of ethical codes and put

00:49into place a body or committee that would enforce its regulations. These bills, however, are not

00:54expected to pass in a split Congress.