Posted on 12/21/2023 7:26:34 AM PST by Red Badger
"Given the risk for these potentially willful omissions to create conflicts of interest and recusal issues, and the need to ensure equal application of the law, the Conference should refer Justice Jackson to the Attorney General for her failure to disclose her husband’s consulting income and open an investigation into the potential private funding of her investiture celebration," asserted CRA President Russ Vought.
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Supreme Court Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson faces an ethics complaint from a conservative non-profit alleging that she failed to disclose income from her husband's business for more than a decade.
The Center for Renewing America filed the complaint on Monday with the Judicial Conference Secretary alleging that she "willfully failed to disclose required information regarding her husband’s medical malpractice consulting income for over a decade."
File Ethics complaint against KBJ "As part of her nomination to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Justice Jackson disclosed the names of two legal medical malpractice consulting clients who paid her husband more than $1,000 for the year 2011," the complaint continued. "On her subsequent filings, however, Justice Jackson repeatedly failed to disclose that her husband received income from medical malpractice consulting fees."
"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,'" it went on. "Compounding the omission and further demonstrating willfulness, Justice 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."
"Given that she was aware of this provision when she filed her first form in 2012, it would appear the Justice Jackson willfully violated § 13104(e)(1)(A) because she did not disclose this required information on her forms for several years," the complaint asserted. "The fact that she referenced her omission in 2022 and did not correct it as required is more indicia of her willfulness to not report this information."
"Given the risk for these potentially willful omissions to create conflicts of interest and recusal issues, and the need to ensure equal application of the law, the Conference should refer Justice Jackson to the Attorney General for her failure to disclose her husband’s consulting income and open an investigation into the potential private funding of her investiture celebration," asserted CRA President Russ Vought.
The complaint comes amid heightened scrutiny of Supreme Court justices following reports that have highlighted the justices' ethics disclosures, in particular focusing on Associate Justice Clarence Thomas's longstanding relationship with GOP megadonor Harlan Crow.
The Supreme Court issued its first ever code of conduct in November amid mounting pressure from the Senate.
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Nothing will happen to her.
If a Republican nominee had done that, there would be massive demonstrations and riots calling for their immediate impeachment and removal..............
Have the media screamed “racism!” yet.
They will.
She’ll say she didn’t know because she’s not an accountant.
Ketanji Brown Jackson = Great name for a Tarantino blaxploitation movie! Not so great for a real life, serious Justice role.
Won’t matter: black, woman, Democrat.
MSM favorite. If the press doesn’t report it, it never happened.
If you are assuming her gender, you must be a biologist.
LYING on Official Government Documents used to be a Criminal Act and they put you in Jail for it.
Could be a warning shot re the attempts to get Thomas to recuse.
Not a fair trade. How about we give them Roberts, they give us Jumpin Jackson Brown?
Not if you are a Democrat protected class...............
apparently timed for an incoming R president to nominate a replacement, nice...
every USSC appeal should be accompanied by a recusal motion
until she resigns or is impeached
Nothing will come of it. Black female Democrats are a protected class. They could have a video of her stomping white babies to death for cannibal use and the left will go to bat for her. Our country is in peril.
The Left has no scruples.
The Right has no testicles......................
“Income Disclosures”—
Her response—I am not an accountant-——
I never did see what credentials gave her a position on the Supreme Court other than she’s a black, female, judge. Now I understand: She has skeletons in her closet that the Deep State can use against her. Yet another clown who stepped out of the clown car at the White House and slithered into a position of power with no legal publications/cases that warrant that power. Even worse, the GOP let it happen.
Rules only apply to the little people.
She is in way over her head on the Supreme Court.
They might as well nominated a first year law student to the bench.................
Rules only apply to the little WHITE people..................
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