An ethics complaint has been filed against Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson by a conservative group alleging she did not properly and fully disclose finances for years.
A conservative policy organization, the Center for Renewing America, lodged a complaint last month with the Judicial Conference, the governing body overseeing federal courts. The complaint alleged that President Joe Biden’s appointee had “willfully failed to disclose” mandatory information regarding her husband’s income from malpractice consulting over a span of more than a decade, Fox News reported.
On December 21, the organization received notification that its complaint had been forwarded to the Financial Disclosures Committee for an official review, the outlet noted further.
“We are hopeful that the Judicial Conference takes a long, hard look at the ethics concerns surrounding Justice Jackson and ensures there is not a double standard for justices,” Russ Vought, a former senior Trump administration official and president of CRA, told Fox News Digital in a statement.
“While the Left has made it a sport to attack the character of conservative Supreme Court justices, they’ve turned a blind eye to actual indiscretions and appearances of corruption actively happening,” he said.
CRA’s letter proposes that the Judicial Conference should ultimately send Jackson’s potential ethics breaches to Attorney General Merrick Garland for examination and potential civil enforcement actions.
The letter stated that federal judges are required by law to disclose the “source of items of earned income earned by a spouse from any person which exceed $1,000… except… if the spouse is self-employed in business or a profession, only the nature of such business or profession needs be reported.”
As part of her nomination process for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Jackson revealed the identities of two legal medical malpractice consulting clients who had paid her husband, Dr. Patrick Jackson, over $1,000 in the year 2011, as mentioned in the letter.
In subsequent filings, however, Jackson “repeatedly failed to disclose that her husband received income from medical malpractice consulting fees,” the letter read.
“We know this by Justice Jackson’s own admission in her amended disclosure form for 2020, filed when she was nominated to the Supreme Court, that ‘some of my previously filed reports inadvertently omitted’ her husband’s income from ‘consulting on medical malpractice cases,’” the letter said, according to Fox News.
Vought added in the letter that “Jackson has not even attempted to list the years for which her previously filed disclosures omitted her husband’s consulting income. Instead, in her admission of omissions on her 2020 amended disclosure form (filed in 2022), Justice Jackson provided only the vague statement that ‘some’ of those past disclosures contained material omissions.”
