Cory Doctorow on Nostr: When the code of conduct was rolled out, the court and its apologists pointed out how ...
When the code of conduct was rolled out, the court and its apologists pointed out how it was modeled on the ethical guidelines that bind lower courts. In the wake of the Thomas revelations, these guidelines were a useful benchmark to measure Thomas's conduct against. The fact that other judges would have been severely sanctioned or even fired if they had engaged in the same conduct as Thomas was a powerful argument that Thomas had overstepped the bounds of ethical conduct.
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