(Washington Examiner) Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was the target of an ethics complaint regarding her husband’s income.
The conservative Center for Renewing America expressed the complaint in a letter to the Judicial Conference. The complaint alleges that Jackson did not report some of her husband’s income for more than a decade. The letter urges the group to refer the matter to Attorney General Merrick Garland to begin an ethics investigation.
The letter claims that 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 continues.
The letter says that Jackson gave “the vague statement that ‘some’ of those past disclosures contained material omissions.”
The question at hand is whether the income’s lack of disclosure violates the law that federal judges are required 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.”
