Democrat says judicial ethics problems are bigger than Clarence Thomas

Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) said during a Wednesday hearing on a possible Supreme Court code of ethics that he was "alarmed" by Justice Clarence Thomas not recusing himself from certain decisions given his wife's controversial text messages, but said judicial ethics problems extended well beyond the justice.

Johnson, chairman of the House Judiciary courts subcommittee, said it was "disturbingly clear that, without explicit enforceable rules, certain members of the high court are going to try to keep trying to get away with more and more until they have gotten away with our whole republic."

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