The Supreme Court’s Code of Conduct was adopted in Nov. 2023.

The last page of the Code noted that “the Chief Justice has directed Court officers to undertake an examination of best practices, drawing in part on the experience of other federal and state courts.”

So you’d think that the Court would take additional steps to improve its ethical stewardship.

In this post, we try to list everything the Court as a whole or justices individually have done since Nov. 2023 in that regard.

So far, the list isn’t very long (this is an update from Nov. 2025 post):
— June 2024: Justice Thomas amends prior years’ financial disclosures to include a trip to Bali and a trip to Bohemian Grove, both in 2019 and both paid by Harlan Crow
— May 2025: four justices recuse in a petition involving their book publisher in 2025 (they didn’t use to)
— Feb. 2026: the Court acknowledges all the justices are using conflict-check software, something all lower court judges have been doing since 2007
— Mar. 2026: the Court begins requiring litigants, where applicable, to include their stock ticker symbols in filings
— July 2026: Fix the Court uncovers the existence of a document Chief Justice Roberts is sending to prospective hosts that emphasizes the justices’ ethical obligations for outside events

Some related notes:
— The two justices who explain their recusals, Justices Kagan and Jackson started doing so earlier in 2023, that is, before the Code was instituted
— It’s difficult to attribute any late-arriving or unexpected recusals — e.g., Gorsuch in Seven County (Dec. 2024), Barrett in Drummond (Jan. 2025) and Alito in Plaquemines (Jan. 2026) — to the Code’s existence