Justice Elena Kagan declined Thursday to outright answer the question of whether Congress could impose an ethics code on the Supreme Court, but she did allow that it could do “various things” to regulate the high court.

“It just can’t be that the court is the only institution that is somehow not subject to any checks and balances from anybody else,” she said, adding, “I mean, we are not imperial.”

“We, too, are part of a checks and balances system,” she said.

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    What I find so ironic is that the US always wants to be the world’s law enforcer, trying to dictate where and how democracy should be run and followed, yet it doesn’t follow what it preaches.

    Source: I live in the USA, and I see it going on on one way or another every day.

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      I can promise you, as an outsider, that the rest of the world regards the US as neither democratic nor free