Gorsuch Accused of Breaking Rules With Upcoming Speech At Trumps D.C. Hotel

Following recent accusations of a lapse in judicial ethics for apparently campaigning with Republican Senator Mitch McConnell, Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch is being called upon to cancel a planned speech at Trump International Hotel later this week.

In an open letter to Gorsuch penned by the liberal judicial advocacy group Free Speech for Free People and co-signed by a host of other progressive organizations and constitutional lawyers, the Trump-appointed Supreme Court Justice is urged to reconsider his decision to speak at the president’s personally-branded monument to American excess.

The letter cites Canon 1 of the Code of Conduct for United States Judges, which states that a judge should, “maintain and enforce high standards of conduct and should personally observe those standards, so that the integrity and independence of the judiciary may be preserved.” Also cited is Supreme Court precedent itself, which holds that a judge should maintain an interest in “preserving public confidence in the integrity of the judiciary.”

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