{"id":1214435,"date":"2023-09-15T05:50:13","date_gmt":"2023-09-15T05:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=294357"},"modified":"2023-09-15T05:50:13","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T05:50:13","slug":"the-supreme-court-is-not-above-the-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/09\/15\/the-supreme-court-is-not-above-the-law\/","title":{"rendered":"The Supreme Court is Not Above the Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following revelations by\u00a0ProPublica\u00a0in April that Justice Clarence Thomas failed to disclose lavish private trips funded by a Texas billionaire and other controversial financial arrangements,\u00a0many lawmakers are rightly calling\u00a0for the Supreme Court to adopt more stringent ethics regulations. Following the scandal, the nine justices in the court signed a\u00a0\u201cStatement on Ethics Principles and Practices\u201d vowing to  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/09\/15\/the-supreme-court-is-not-above-the-law\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/09\/15\/the-supreme-court-is-not-above-the-law\/\">The Supreme Court is Not Above the Law<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following revelations by\u00a0ProPublica\u00a0in April that Justice Clarence Thomas failed to disclose lavish private trips funded by a Texas billionaire and other controversial financial arrangements,\u00a0many lawmakers are rightly calling\u00a0for the Supreme Court to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29484,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214435"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29484"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1214435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1214481,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214435\/revisions\/1214481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1214435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1214435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1214435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}