SCOTUS/Whitehouse dust-up

 SCOTUS responds to Whitehouse and Johnson: Nothing to see here.  "Social hospitality" is allowed.

Whitehouse and Johnson respond:

“Through legal counsel, the Supreme Court reiterated Justice Alito’s denials but did not substantively answer any of our questions. The Court’s letter is an embodiment of the problems at the Court around ethics issues. Unlike all other federal courts, there is no formal process for complaints; it took a Senator’s and a Congressman’s repeated letters to galvanize a response. Unlike all other federal courts, there is no formal process for fact-finding inquiry. The assertions of fact by the Court’s lawyer emerge from darkness, and overlook important facts like all the contemporaneous evidence that Mr. Schenck in fact knew both the outcome and author in advance and acted at that time on that knowledge. Unlike all other federal courts, there is no independence — no formal process of independent review. That absence of independence violates the ancient maxim, nemo judex in sua causa: no one should judge their own cause. These multiple failures of orderly process are peculiar, coming from the highest Court in the land. Procedure is the bone structure of justice,” Whitehouse and Johnson said in response to the new letter.

  Sheldon Whitehouse.gov

Impeach Alito - and Roberts if he doesn't cooperate.

Earlier this year, Whitehouse and Johnson introduced the Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency Act to enact stronger recusal standards, require the Court to adopt a binding code of conduct, and mandate the Supreme Court adopt more robust rules governing disclosure of gifts and travel paid for by outside parties. The bill would also require disclosure of the identity of funders of amicus briefs, and block amicus filers from making gifts or providing travel to court of appeals judges or Supreme Court justices.

The bare minimum of what should be done.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.