The effort to regulate the Supreme Court no longer has to contend with a blank page. The “Model Code of Conduct for U.S. Supreme Court Justices” looks to us like the rough draft for a different kind of court than Americans have come to know. It imagines hemmed-in justices and a new stare decisis more appropriate for monks than jurists in a democracy. Forget the binding of Isaac. Chief Justice Roberts, get your ropes ready.