During Good Behavior: The Evolution of Judicial Conduct Code Enforcement

The federal government has looked to its 50 laboratories of democracy when deciding what changes to adopt nationwide. In this article, I argue the federal government should look once more at how states address judicial misconduct to create a formal process addressing U.S. Supreme Court misconduct. By examining the development of judicial conduct commissions in both Georgia and Tennessee, the federal government can determine how to create a commission responsible for code enforcement for the highest court in the land, the U.S. Supreme Court.