Nomination to Be Chief Justice Raises Ethics Stakes in Roberts Nomination: Statement by Community Rights Counsel.

(From AScribe)

WASHINGTON -- The environmental law group Community Rights Counsel today released the following statement.

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As head of the Judicial Conference and primary spokesperson for the judicial branch, the Chief Justice wields enormous power over the development and implementation of ethical mandates. With three of the country's leading experts in judicial ethics arguing that Judge John G. Roberts, Jr. should not have participated in Hamdan v. United States, an important war-on-terror case, while interviewing for a seat on the Supreme Court, ethical issues were already sure to be a topic at his confirmation hearings. With his nomination …