There is a picture that would tell you why at one glance.
Unfortunately, I cannot find it. Justice, are you the one with the pic of BO and SCOTUS?
No, I don’t have a pic of BO and SCOTUS, but I’ve seen it and I think know what you are referring to. Obama was photographed playing a courtesy social call on eight of the nine SCOTUS justices a day or two before his inauguration. As was pointed out then, the justices’ hobnobbing with Obama, a party and/or a critical figure in several cases pending before the SCOTUS, violated the canon of judicial ethics.