Samuel Alito opposition to ethics reform ‘unwelcome’ – leading Democrat

Dick Durbin, chair of Senate judiciary committee, criticizes supreme court justice in wake of billowing ethics scandals

A powerful Democrat senator has called Samuel Alito's public expression of opposition to US supreme court ethics reform unwise and unwelcome", rejecting the conservative justice's contention that Congress cannot implement such measures.

Justice Alito is providing speculative public commentary on a bill that is still going through the legislative process," said Dick Durbin, a Democrat from Illinois and the chair of the Senate judiciary committee.