Chairman Dick Durbin invited Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on May 2 regarding serious concerns about ethics violations of court justices. Chief Justice Roberts declined, stating: “testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee by the Chief Justice of the United States is exceedingly rare….”

You know what else should be “exceedingly rare”?

A Supreme Court Justice accepting luxury gifts from a Republican mega-donor and not disclosing it. Or how about a Supreme Court Justice selling a million dollar property to the chief executive of one of the nation's biggest law firms and has had 22 cases before the Court?

And that’s only what we’ve learned in the last few weeks - as the revelations of SCOTUS corruption keep coming out, it’s becoming clear that this problem goes beyond “exceedingly rare” cases.

It was recently revealed that nine days after he was confirmed by the Senate, Justice Neil Gorsuch and his business partners sold a 40-acre tract of property in Colorado to Brian Duffy, the CEO of Greenberg Traurig -- a law firm that has had 22 cases go before the court during Gorsuch’s tenure.

Of the 12 cases where his opinion is recorded, Gorsuch sided with Greenberg Traurig clients 8 times. Gorsuch did report the sale of the property and his share of the earnings -- between $250,001 and $500,00 -- but he didn’t report the name of the person he sold it to, even though it IS required by law.

This, in addition to Justice Clarence Thomas’ accepting gifts and selling Georgia property to Republican mega-donor Harlan Crow, has heightened criticism of the Court and its lack of judicial ethics.

Chief Justice John Roberts had a chance to put this to rest and agree to have SCOTUS follow the same judicial ethics as other members of the federal judiciary, but he’s chosen to abdicate his responsibility and appear content to allow the nations’ trust in the highest court in the land to continue to erode.

Supreme Court justices are too powerful and too influential to be allowed to act without any guidelines whatsoever. We need systemic checks to ensure that they are working for the people, not themselves, or their friends, or specific advocacy groups.

If Chief Justice Roberts refuses to voluntarily testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee, then Chairman Durbin must compel him to testify via a subpoena.

Add your name to call on Senate Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin to subpoena Chief Justice Roberts about Supreme Court ethics violations now.