{"id":13066,"date":"2023-12-20T01:50:45","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T01:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/20\/ketanji-brown-jackson-slapped-with-ethics-complaint-over-husbands-income\/"},"modified":"2023-12-20T01:50:45","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T01:50:45","slug":"ketanji-brown-jackson-slapped-with-ethics-complaint-over-husbands-income","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/20\/ketanji-brown-jackson-slapped-with-ethics-complaint-over-husbands-income\/","title":{"rendered":"Ketanji Brown Jackson slapped with ethics complaint over husband\u2019s income"},"content":{"rendered":"

FIRST ON FOX<\/strong> \u2014 A conservative policy group has filed an ethics complaint against Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson for \u2018willfully\u2019 omitting required income disclosures for years while serving on the federal bench.<\/p>\n

The Center for Renewing America, a think tank led by former senior Trump White House official Russ Vought, sent a letter to the Judicial Conference with allegations that Jackson \u2018willfully failed to disclose\u2019 required information about her husband\u2019s malpractice consulting income for more than a decade.<\/p>\n

The letter suggests that the Judicial Conference should refer Jackson\u2019s possible ethics violations to Attorney General Merrick Garland for investigation and possible civil enforcement.<\/p>\n

The letter notes that federal judges are legally required to disclose the \u2018source of items of earned income earned by a spouse from any person which exceed $1,000\u2026except\u2026if the spouse is self-employed in business or a profession, only the nature of such business or profession needs be reported.\u2019<\/p>\n

As part of her nomination to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Jackson disclosed the names of two legal medical malpractice consulting clients who paid her husband, Dr. Patrick Jackson, more than $1,000 for the year 2011, the letter notes.<\/p>\n

In subsequent filings, however, Jackson \u2018repeatedly failed to disclose that her husband received income from medical malpractice consulting fees,\u2019 the letter reads.<\/p>\n

\u2018We know this by Justice Jackson\u2019s own admission in her amended disclosure form for 2020, filed when she was nominated to the Supreme Court, that \u2018some of my previously filed reports inadvertently omitted\u2019 her husband\u2019s income from \u2018consulting on medical malpractice cases,\u2019\u2019 the letter says.<\/p>\n

Vought says in the letter that \u2018Jackson has not even attempted to list the years for which her previously filed disclosures omitted her husband\u2019s 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 \u2018some\u2019 of those past disclosures contained material omissions.\u2019<\/p>\n

Vought, who headed up the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) under President Trump, argues that Dr. Jackson\u2019s income does not qualify for the \u2018self-employment\u2019 exception. The Ethics in Government Act of 1978 (EIGA) requires Justice Jackson to identify the \u2018source of items of earned income earned by a spouse from any person which exceeds $1,000.\u2019<\/p>\n

The former OMB chief argues that since Jackson was aware of the requirements in 2012 enough to list the specific sources of income for her first disclosure filing but not in subsequent filings, apart from admitting that she left off some of her husband\u2019s income, her actions amount to \u2018willful\u2019 violation of the law.<\/p>\n

The letter also says there is reason to believe Justice Jackson may have failed to report the private funding sources of her \u2018massive investiture celebration at the Library of Congress\u2019 in her most recent financial disclosure.<\/p>\n

Following her appointment to the Supreme Court in 2022, the Library of Congress hosted a massive event in her honor that featured performances by several musicians and groups, including the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Quartet and civil rights movement Freedom Singer Rutha Mae Harris.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s unclear who paid for the event. EIGA requires that any gift \u2018received over $415\u2019 be disclosed. EIGA defines \u2018gift\u2019 as \u2018a payment, advance, forbearance, rendering, or deposit of money, or [anything] of value.\u2019<\/p>\n

Jackson\u2019s disclosure for that year includes flowers from Oprah Winfrey with a $1,200 price tag and a designer jacket from her Vogue photo shoot that cost $6,580.<\/p>\n

\u2018Justice Jackson thus cannot claim ignorance of EIGA\u2019s gift disclosure requirements, and there is no serious argument that this \u2018massive event featuring performances by several musicians and groups\u2019 celebrating her investiture is not a \u2018thing of value,\u2019\u2019 Vought said.<\/p>\n

Vought also says that\u00a0Jackson\u2019s \u2018disturbing trend of not reporting material sources of income and gifts\u2019 has \u2018shielded potential conflicts of interest from public scrutiny and undermined the ability of the public, outside watchdog groups, and parties to scrutinize her recusal decisions.\u2019<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital reached out to the Supreme Court\u2019s public information office but did not receive an immediate response.<\/p>\n\n

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