Gregory's Server
The easiest assumption is that a person vetted by the Senate, with a record in a profession that itself has an ethical standard, would remain true to the ethics of that profession.
We have been disabused of 2.5 of our assumptions:
One, that a member of the Supreme Court would remain true to ethics,
Two, that the Senate has a sense of propriety and discretion in whom they elevate to the Supreme Court,
And another .5 that they could find someone in the profession who already lacked ethics, and would willfully lie to the Senate under oath. And more than just one "someone." It's as if they're trying to find them, on purpose.