IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
September 14, 2023
Government Accountability Project Represents Ethics Expert Who Testified Before Congress on the Ethics Failures of Two Supreme Court Justices
WASHINGTON—On September 13, 2023, the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Accountability held a hearing to ostensibly address problems when lawsuits are funded by third parties not connected to the case, “Unsuitable Litigation: Oversight of Third-Party Litigation Funding.” Democrats who are in the minority called a renowned ethics expert, Professor Kathleen Clark, to testify about a far more significant ethics concern facing the nation: conflicts of interest at the Supreme Court.
Kathleen Clark is a professor at Washington University School of Law; her scholarship on legal and government ethics has been cited in hundreds of books and articles. She has provided ethics training to governments at the federal, state and local levels, as well to government officials, lawyers and law students on five continents. At the four-hour hearing, Professor Clark testified on the U.S. Supreme Court’s failure to adopt ethics rules and police itself, as well as the threat this lack of action poses to the integrity of the judicial system. Singling out the recent revelations that Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito have failed to disclose lavish gifts showered on them by billionaires with direct interests in cases before the Supreme Court, Professor Clark noted that the refusal by the Justices to timely...
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