Policymaking body for federal courts released proposed changes to the Code of Conduct
Zoe Tillman ✔ @ZoeTillman 1:00 PM - Sep 13, 2018
The Judicial Conference, the policymaking body for the federal courts, today released a set of proposed changes to the Code of Conduct and the Rules for Judicial Conduct/Disability Proceedings.
The proposed changes include new sections expanding definitions of misconduct, and making clear that if a judge sees what is clearly misconduct and doesn't report it, that is itself misconduct.
The Judicial Conference's meeting is not open to the public. DC Circuit Chief Judge Merrick Garland, as chair of the conference's Executive Committee, briefed reporters after today's meeting. He said the judges heard from AG Sessions and Reps. Goodlatte, Issa, and Johnson.
In what's become standard practice at these briefings, reporters asked Garland what Sessions spoke about to the judges, and Garland (as other executive committee chairs have done in the past) declined to discuss it, saying there's an understanding of confidentiality.
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