But the chief justice is “studying” whether the court needs its own ethics code, Justice Elena Kagan says.
By Robert Barnes Robert Barnes Reporter covering the U.S. Supreme Court Email Bio Follow March 7 at 6:39 PM Despite public support for televising Supreme Court hearings, the ban will remain for the foreseeable future and the issue isn’t much of a topic of conversation among the justices, two of them told a House appropriations subcommittee Thursday.
At the hearing called to review the court’s budget request, Alito said much of its proposed increase would be spent on physical and cyber security. Although he was not specific, Alito said there were a “startling” number of attempts in the past year to hack into the court’s computer system. Kagan said that when she observed the court as President Barack Obama’s solicitor general she thought it would be good for the public to see what she saw.
If seeing the court at work “came at the expense of the way the institution functioned, that would be a very bad bargain,” she said. Instead, he said, showing the court at work “would do wonders to correct the American people’s often biased perception of our nation’s top court.” But she indicated the court is aware of the perception that it does not play by the rules set for others.
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