“We Can’t Lower the Bar So Low”: Can the Senate Rein in a Scandal-Plagued Supreme Court?

Clarence Thomas’s friendship with billionaire Harlan Crow is just the latest stain on the high court, which top Democrats say is in dire need of an ethics overhaul. “You’re not a court just because you wear black robes,” Sheldon Whitehouse tells Vanity Fair. “You’re a court because you behave like a court.”