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Julian Zelizer: We need an independent authority to enforce basic ethical standards for the highest court in the land.
The U.S. House of Representatives created an independent Office of Congressional Ethics in 2008, Zelizer says.
The failure of the Senate to create a similar mechanism was shameful, he says, and no senator has been sanctioned since 2007.
Frida Ghitis: Clarence Thomas and his lavish gifts and trips, none disclosed, have already stained the court.
She says the failure to create and enforce minimal ethical standards for the Supreme Court has resulted in massive embarrassment and challenge to the integrity of the Roberts Court.
Ghitis says the House and Senate have worked on two commendable bills to establish a code and create the equivalent of an inspector general.
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