In recent years, all nine sitting justices on the U.S. Supreme Court have been the subject of reports calling their ethics into question. Is this an old problem? Something new? Political gamesmanship?

In an advisory opinion, an ethics panel said Judge Juan Merchan should be able to continue to presiding over litigation in the criminal prosecution of Donald Trump. The impartiality of acting Supreme ...

In most civil cases and in all criminal cases, a jury hears testimony, reviews evidence, determines the facts and renders a final decision. While a judge tells the jury the principles of the law it ...

Experts in legal ethics have said that the activities of the justices’ wives raised serious questions about their impartiality. By Adam Liptak Reporting on the Supreme Court since 2008 Justices ...

Just when you think Virginia “Ginni” Thomas can’t do any more to cast disrepute on the institution where her husband has served as a justice for more than three decades, just when you think that ...