The Center for Renewing America (CRA) has filed an ethics complaint against liberal Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson for allegedly omitting portions of her husband's income on financial disclosure forms.
The group, headed by former Trump administration official Russ Vought, accuses Jackson of not disclosing important information about her husband's income. The allegations state that she did not reveal her husband's income from his malpractice consulting work over a period of more than 10 years. CRA's letter to the Judicial Conference recommends that the charges be referred to United States Attorney General Merrick Garland for further investigation.
The letter notes that federal judges are legally 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.”
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.
In subsequent filings, however, Jackson “repeatedly failed to disclose that her husband received income from medical malpractice consulting fees,” the letter reads.
“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,'” the letter says.
Vought, who served as the head of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) during the Trump administration, points out that according to the Ethics in Government Act of 1978, Jackson is obligated in her role to disclose the origin of any earned income exceeding $1,000 received by her spouse.
CRA's letter to the Judicial Conference can be read in its entirety by clicking here.
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