I will say that that’s an extremely difficult question for a pretty obvious reason, I think, which is that I don’t think that you would want an enforcement system that was controlled by the executive branch or by the legislature.
On enforcing the court's ethics policy.
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They're dangerous in terms of individual justices' security and they're not appropriate in the way to treat a coordinate branch of government.
I think that we should hold ourselves, sort of on both sides, to a standard of explaining why we're doing what we're doing.
We are, as we have said many times before, ‘a court of review, not of first view.’