Behind Biden’s Call for Changes to US Supreme Court: QuickTake

US President Joe Biden has called on Congress to pass enforceable rules of conduct for justices of the Supreme Court as part of a larger proposal to overhaul the institution by imposing term limits. The court adopted a code of conduct for the first time in November, but it lacks an enforcement mechanism. It took up the code after justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito came under scrutiny for alleged ethical lapses.

What are the accusations against Clarence Thomas?

ProPublica reported in 2023 that Thomas had accepted financial largesse from Texas billionaire Harlan Crow, a Republican donor, that he’d ...