they accused us of smear and harassment to even raise the facts brought up by ProPublica.
I've been calling on Supreme Court Justices to be held, at a minimum, to the same ethical standards as every other Feder...
the fact that the Supreme Court of the United States of America has not established code of conduct and ethical standard...
I've been surprised, in a way, at the reaction of my Republican counterparts to this issue.
there was a bipartisan effort by two Members of this Committee, one Democrat, one Republican, to establish the standard ...
it struck me that there was a true bipartisan spirit that this was a reasonable ethical standard.
I want to overcome that criticism with results where we can have bipartisanship in the selection of judicial nominees.
I don't want to repeat that mistake again.