Good morning and welcome to Supreme Court Brief! Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson will have her formal investiture on Friday in the courtroom with a limited audience. Jackson, of course, has already settled into her new job following Justice Stephen Breyer's retirement on June 30. This morning, she will take her seat as the junior justice in the court's "long" conference. We have a study on cert grants from those conferences. And the pressure is on House Democratic leaders from court reform groups seeking action on a Supreme Court ethics bill before the pre-election recess. Scroll down for more on the court's legitimacy,  a continuing topic of conversation by some justices and observers.

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The justices' conference room at the Supreme Court. Credit: Steve Petteway, Collection of the U.S. Supreme Court

 Push For Supreme Court Ethics Bill

Some of the justices spoke about public concerns with the court's legitimacy, during their appearances this summer at law schools and before other groups. They offered different views about whether there is a problem, and how to fix it if it exists.

But more than a dozen judicial watchdog groups believe there is a problem and a major step toward solving it is at hand. This week, the groups, in a letter to House Democratic leaders urged those members to bring to the floor before the pre-election recess H.R. 7647, the Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal and Transparency Act. The bill's sponsor is Rep. Henry "Hank" Johnson, D-Ga.