A complaint against Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is being reviewed by the Committee on Financial declarations in the Judicial Conference. The complaint alleges that Jackson neglected to include her husband’s salary in her financial declarations.
The Judicial Conference, which oversees federal courts, received a complaint from the conservative policy group Center for Renewing America last month. The group claimed that Jackson had “willfully failed to disclose” pertinent information regarding her husband’s malpractice consulting income for over ten years.
The group received notification on December 21st that the Financial Disclosers Committee had been assigned their complaint for formal review.
“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, said in a statement to Fox News Digital.
“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 stated.
According to the CRA letter, Jackson’s potential ethics infractions should be investigated by Attorney General Merrick Garland for potential civil enforcement. This recommendation should be made by the Judicial Conference.
The letter stated that, “unless the spouse is self-employed in business or a profession, only the nature of such business or profession needs to be reported,” federal judges are legally obligated to reveal the “source of items of earned income earned by a spouse from any person which exceed $1,000.”
Jackson revealed the identities of two legal medical malpractice consulting clients who gave her husband, Dr. Patrick Jackson, more than $1,000 in 2011, according to a letter she sent in support of her candidacy to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
In her first nine months on the Supreme Court, Ketanji Brown Jackson has struggled and made compromises.
But Jackson “continually concealed that her husband received money from medical malpractice consulting fees” in later forms, the letter stated.
“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,’” said the letter.
“Jackson has not even attempted to list the years for which her previously filed disclosures omitted her husband’s consulting income,” Vought stated in the letter. Rather, Justice Jackson just stated that “some” of the prior disclosures contained serious omissions in her admission of omissions on her 2020 updated disclosure form (filed in 2022).
Vought, who led President Trump’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB), contends that Dr. Jackson’s earnings are not covered by the “self-employment” exemption. Justice Jackson is required by the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 (EIGA) to disclose the “source of items of earned income earned by a spouse from any person which exceeds $1,000.”