Thursday, May 25, 2023

Of bipartisan interest, a speaker from the UMinn Law school faculty will discuss Supreme Court Ethics.

 The left.mn link Steve Timmer posted for the "Drinking Liberally" event is here, basically:

Richard Painter (Professor of Corporate Law at the University of Minnesota) will be the featured speaker at Drinking Liberally on Thursday evening, May 25th, at 7 PM. Painter, who served as the chief White House ethics lawyer from 2005 to 2007, will speak on Supreme Court ethics. Drinking Liberally will meet, as it always does, at the 331 Club in northeast Minneapolis, located at the corner of 13th and University Avenues NE.

Drinking Liberally starts at 6 PM, and as mentioned, the program with Richard Painter will begin at seven.

The two obvious avenues of analysis: non-disclosure by Clarence Thomas; and responsibility of Chief Justice Roberts to notice that problem and in some way to react postively to his duty. As well as, what exact duty and power does a Chief Justice have, and how should it be used in this precedent setting situation.