To the editor: As an getting old lawyer, I nonetheless respect a few of the establishments that made this nation distinctive. Sadly, the US Supreme Courtroom’s just lately issued code of conduct does nothing to enhance its repute for integrity.
It will have been acceptable to revise the commentary connected to the code to start with the road “As soon as upon a time…” and finish with, “The righteous lived fortunately ever after.”
Robert Matthews, San Clemente
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To the editor: The judges now have a code of ethics that makes them the Supreme Courtroom.
And we surprise why strange residents imagine they don’t have any obligation to obey legal guidelines, a lot much less respect a code of ethics.
Claudia Zuercher, Redondo Seaside
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To the editor: Properly, it is not particular.
The Supreme Courtroom has made a purely political “moral” assertion to unravel its political drawback with public notion. In authorized parlance, it is referred to as “placing lipstick on a pig.”
Diana Lee Carey, Westminster
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To the editor: The Supreme Courtroom justices say their so-called code of ethics would “dispel this false impression” that they “understand themselves as unfettered by moral guidelines.”
Two quotes from George Orwell’s “1984” come to thoughts: “It was merely changing one piece of nonsense with one other,” and “Maybe a madman was merely a minority of 1.”
Michael Grodsky, Santa Fe