Newsweek’s article on the low stage of ethics inside the U.S. Supreme Court docket begins:
In his upcoming memoir, retired Decide David S. Tatel wrote that he stepped down from his place on the U.S. Court docket of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit because of the U.S. Supreme Court docket‘s “low regard” for judicial rules, based on a Friday report by The Washington Put up.
Although it appears that evidently our nation’s abandoning its integrity occurred fully within the final 10 years, that may’t probably be the case. Clarence Thomas is the oldest and longest standing justice. Do you assume he went dangerous just some months in the past?
Scandals in company America, e.g., Wells Fargo’s option to defraud hundreds of thousands of its purchasers, Enron, Bernie Madoff, and the handfuls of banksters related to the sub-prime mortgage collapse, return many a long time. The truth is, the Wikipedia web page on the topic lists the collapse of the Medici Financial institution within the fifteenth Century as an early instance of malfeasance.
All that stated, there is no such thing as a doubt that the Trump phenomenon has caused an avalanche of dishonesty, simply in the previous few years, on condition that the president himself is a convicted felon, and feels exactly zero regret for his felony actions.
