U.S. Supreme Court justices and federal judges must now provide greater public disclosure of any free trips, meals or gifts they receive under new regulations adopted at the urging of lawmakers and judicial transparency advocates.
made public on Tuesday by Democratic U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, who has argued for broader ethics reforms at the Supreme Court.
He and other Democrats in Congress have also introduced legislation that would require the Supreme Court to adopt a, strengthen recusal standards for judges and bolster financial disclosure requirements. Whitehouse, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said the judiciary's disclosure rules had long been more relaxed than other branches of government, particularly when it came to defining what constituted "personal hospitality" that judges did not have to disclose.
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