Corrupt Justice Neil Gorsuch

There's a big to-do about Neil Gorsuch finally recusing himself from a case before the Supreme Court.  Mark Joseph Stern at Slate has a good article explaining the decision and arguing why it's not really commendable.  

Excerpt:

One bizarre facet of this incident is that, as an appeals court judge, Gorsuch had no apparent problem stepping away from cases involving Anschutz and his companies. That may be because the lower courts’ ethics rules are binding and enforceable—so if Gorsuch improperly sat on a case, he would face real repercussions. The Supreme Court, by contrast, has no enforceable ethics rules. And that is in no small part because of Gorsuch’s intransigence. According to the New York Times, when the justices decided to establish their own code of conduct last year, Gorsuch was a chief antagonist of the project. In particular, the justice adamantly rejected any enforcement mechanism, warning that it could undermine the court’s independence. He reportedly served as an insurmountable roadblock to the three liberal justices’ goal of making the code mandatory. The resulting document, released late last year, is something of a paradox—a list of ostensible directives that are couched in voluntary language, with nobody empowered to enforce them.

  Slate

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