Policing the Supreme Court: Conflicts of interest and financial disclosures

As the eight-member Supreme Court starts its new term, CNN Legal Analyst Joan Biskupic explains the often overlooked financial disclosures that can explain why a particular justice may choose to recuse himself or herself from a case. When a justice holds stock in a company and recuses himself, it is often months before the public knows why he didn't participate in arguments. But there is little official oversight of the judicial branch where federal judges are appointed for life. Only outside advocacy groups are unofficially policing the judiciary. "It's very hard to get rid" of a federal judge, Biskupic says.