Journalistic and Legal Ethics for SCOTUS Reporters

Journalistic and Legal Ethics for SCOTUS Reporters

Steve Sachs writes that Adam Liptak, a member of the New York Bar, may have transgressed certain rules of professional conduct by publicizing the leaked SCOTUS documents. Steve raises the broader concern of how journalistic ethics interact with legal ethics. A lawyer-journalist can easily resolve this tension by resigning from the bar, but there are professional reasons for maintaining that license. The Supreme Court publishes a list of about tw…