Ethics Complaint Lodged Against Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Regarding Her Husband’s Income
From Tampa Free Press
Article By Mike Jenkins, Original Publish Date: December 19, 2023
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has found herself at the center of controversy with allegations regarding her failure to disclose required income information.
An ethics complaint filed against her by the Center for Renewing America (CRA), a conservative policy group, raises questions about Justice Jackson’s transparency and adherence to legal requirements.
Ketanji Brown Jackson was nominated to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and subsequently appointed to the Supreme Court in 2022.
However, it has now come to light that she may have violated ethics rules by failing to disclose her husband’s income from medical malpractice consulting fees.
The Center for Renewing America, led by former Trump White House official Russ Vought, has filed an ethics complaint against Justice Jackson, accusing her of willfully omitting decades-old income disclosures.
Allegations Of Omitted Income Disclosures
According to the Ethics in Government Act of 1978, federal judges are required to disclose the source of earned income exceeding $1,000.
While Justice Jackson initially disclosed the names of two clients who paid her husband over $1,000 for medical malpractice consulting in 2011, subsequent filings failed to include this information.
“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,” said CRA in the complaint.
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