Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan on Thursday threw her opinion into the heated debate over the highest court's ethics, asserting that Congress has broad powers to check the Supreme Court despite her conservative colleague's claim that such action would violate the separation of powers outlined in the Constitution.
According to Politico, Kagan made her comments at the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference in Portland, Oregon, just days after the Senate Judiciary Committee advanced a bill requiring the court to establish an ethics code and a method to enforce it in response to recent controversies around conservative Justice Clarence Thomas' luxury travel and relationship with GOP megadonor Harlan Crow.
