John Roberts Hit With Ethics Firestorm Over Conduct That Has Gotten Other Judges Removed From the Bench

John Roberts Hit With Ethics Firestorm Over Conduct That Has Gotten Other Judges Removed From the Bench

Chief Justice John Roberts is facing a growing ethics firestorm after renewed scrutiny over financial disclosure filings and his wife’s lucrative ties to elite law firms that regularly argued cases before the Supreme Court. And critics are asking a question that has become increasingly difficult for the judiciary to avoid: Would any lower-level federal judge survive this kind of controversy? The allegations themselves are not new. Much of the in…