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.”

One might think the Court would take several subsequent steps to improve its ethical stewardship, right?

But no such luck. In this post, we try to list everything the Court as a whole or justices individually have done since Nov. 2023 in that regard. In the very least, each of these is something Fix the Court has called on the Court to do.

The list isn’t very long:
— 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 on Harlan Crow’s (but leaves out several others)
— May 2025: four justices recuse in a petition involving their book publisher (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 (and likely other justices, though that’s not yet confirmed) is sending to prospective hosts that emphasizes a justice’s ethical obligations for outside events

Some related notes:
— This post is an update from our Nov. 2025 post
— 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