Democrats Push Bill to Regulate Supreme Court

Senate Environment and Public Works Committee member Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) questions Andrew Wheeler during his confirmation hearing to be the next administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington on Jan. 16, 2019. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Congress must impose a code of conduct on the Supreme Court that requires justices to recuse themselves when a financial connection exists between the justice or the justice’s family and someone having business before the court, a Democrat-controlled congressional oversight committee heard on June 14.

If the Supreme Court won’t act, Congress will, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) said at the meeting of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action, and Federal Rights.