Republicans have suggested that Democrats are promoting the ethics inquiry for political reasons.

And the disputes have given rise to a Congressional investigation and an ethics inquiry by an administrative body of the court itself.

Those rules prompted what has been called an unofficial truce on ethics inquiries.

The ethics inquiries will continue to progress through the senate committees.

And he has developed a specialty in running ethics inquiries, including some into his own friends.

This is a murder case, not an ethics inquiry.

But in an ethics inquiry Mohan might have been asked what he thought.

House Republicans also changed the rules to make it harder to initiate an ethics inquiry.

The nomination has been stalled for nearly a year by ethics inquiries.

But it cannot do so because the committee is embroiled in a fight over rules changes that critics say will discourage ethics inquiries.