Hold on. Doesn't have to be "far above the ecliptic." It just has to be geosynchronous. Then it's always making observations w/r/to the earth's position. It would mimic our own observations. What's wrong with that?
Just in general, when you orbit the earth, your orbit is either in the plane of the ecliptic or has to cross the plane of the ecliptic. You're orbiting the earth's center of mass. The center of mass must by Kepler's (pick one from "First," "Second," or "Third") Law be at one of the foci of your ellipse and thus in the plane of the orbit.
Same problem if the center of the orbit is the sun. You're still in the plane of the ecliptic or crossing it. The center of mass about which you are orbiting is going to be in the plane of your orbit. There's no stable orbit about Earth or sun which tracks the earth and hovers over one pole.