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Supreme Court Adopts Automated Recusal Software to Avoid Ethics Conflicts
- On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court announced new software to flag potential conflicts and beefed-up filing rules taking effect March 16.
- Following the court's 2023 code of conduct, the justices must disqualify themselves when their "impartiality might reasonably be questioned," underpinning stronger recusal efforts.
- The court's information technology office built software to compare lawyer and party data with the justices' offices, and Roth, Fix the Court, said it's "somewhat positive" and noted the court wrote at the end of the code that it would 'undertake an examination of best practices' on judicial ethics.
- Critics pointed out the absence of enforcement mechanisms and that individual justices retain sole recusal authority, while the court said automated recusal checks will complement the court's recusal-review procedures.
- Next month, the court's new filing rules, involving fuller party lists and ticker symbols, take effect on March 16 to support the 2023 code of conduct.
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