Supreme Court Ethics Act

H.R. 1057 · 116th Congress · Feb 7, 2019 · Lineage

A BILL

To amend title 28, United States Code, to provide for a code of conduct for justices and judges of the courts of the United States.

Section 1 Short title

This Act may be cited as the “Supreme Court Ethics Act”.

Sec. 2 Code of conduct

(a)

In general— Chapter 57 of title 28, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:

“964. Code of conduct

“Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this section, the Judicial Conference of the United States shall issue a code of conduct, which applies to each justice and judge of the courts of the United States, except that the code of conduct may include provisions that are applicable only to certain categories of judges or justices.”

(b)

Technical and conforming amendment— The table of sections for chapter 57 of title 28, United States Code, is amended by adding after the item related to section 963 the following:

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Feb 7, 2019viewing Introduced in House Mr. Johnson of Georgia (for himself, Mrs. Beatty, Mr. Beyer, Mr. Blumenauer, Mr. Brendan F. Boyle of Pennsylvania, Ms. Brownley of California, Mr. Carson of Indiana, Mr. Casten of Illinois, Mr. Cicilline, Ms. Clarke of New York, Mr. Cohen, Mr. Connolly, Mr. Cooper, Mr. Cummings, Mr. DeFazio, Mr. DeSaulnier, Mr. Engel, Ms. Eshoo, Mr. Foster, Mr. Grijalva, Mr. Hastings, Ms. Jackson Lee, Ms. Jayapal, Mr. Kennedy, Mr. Khanna, Mr. Kilmer, Mr. Langevin, Mr. Ted Lieu of California, Ms. Lofgren, Mr. Luján, Mr. McGovern, Ms. Moore, Mr. Moulton, Ms. Mucarsel-Powell, Mr. Nadler, Ms. Norton, Mr. Pascrell, Ms. Pingree, Mr. Raskin, Mr. Sarbanes, Ms. Schakowsky, Mr. David Scott of Georgia, Mr. Smith of Washington, Ms. Speier, Mr. Swalwell of California, Mr. Takano, Mr. Tonko, Ms. Wasserman Schultz, Mr. Welch, and Mr. Yarmuth) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

Supreme Court Ethics Act

Section 1 Short title

Sec. 2 Code of conduct

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