To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit officers and employees of the judiciary from engaging in official acts affecting personal financial interests.
The Judicial Integrity Act amends federal ethics law to explicitly prohibit federal judges and Supreme Court justices from taking official actions that affect their personal financial interests. The bill adds judges and justices to existing conflict-of-interest rules that already apply to other federal officers and employees. It also allows the Judicial Conference of the United States to create regulations that exempt certain financial interests from these restrictions if they determine those interests are too minor or remote to compromise judicial integrity, provided the exemptions go through a public notice-and-comment process. The legislation affects all federal judges and Supreme Court justices and applies to any official acts they take. No specific funding or implementation timeline is included in the bill.
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