Are Supreme Court Justices Betting On Their Own Cases? A Member Of Congress Would Love John Roberts To Answer This Question

This conflict of interest poses huge ethical risk for Supreme Court

In a letter sent to U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts on June 30, Rep. Greg Landsman (D-Ohio) sounded the alarm about "conflicts of interest and ethical risks posed by prediction market betting on Supreme Court decisions and Court operations." And the Democratic congressman urged Roberts to "consider adopting a policy to ban the use of prediction markets for all justices, officers, and staff." Landsman isn't the only one who is speak…

Are Supreme Court Justices Betting On Their Own Cases? A Member Of Congress Would Love John Roberts To Answer This Question

The Supreme Court has spent years careening from one self-inflicted ethics crisis to the next. There was Clarence Thomas quietly pocketing what Fix the Court tallied as roughly $6 million in undisclosed gifts from billionaire Harlan Crow — luxury yachts, private jets, real estate deals, and a relative’s private school tuition, all off the books. There was Ginni Thomas lobbying hard to overturn the 2020 election while her husband declined to recu…