Ketanji Brown Jackson’s ethics complaint over husband’s income

The Center for Renewing America, (CRA),  a conservative policy group, has filed an ethics complaint against SCOTUS Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson (KBJ) for “willfully” omitting required income disclosures for years while serving as a judge of other people, some of whom do similar crimes.

The CRA is headed by Russ Vought, a former top Trump White House official. 

Vought sent a letter to the Judicial Conference alleging that Jackson "willfully failed to disclose" required information regarding her husband’s malpractice consulting income for over ten years. [Now there's a dose of irony if there ever was one.]

The letter suggests that the Judicial Conference should refer Jackson’s possible ethics violations to the highly wimpy Attorney General Merrick Garland for investigation and possible civil enforcement. It notes that federal judges are legally required to disclose  "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."

The fact that KBJ's husband deals with malpractice while legally committing it [allegedly] would be funny if not tragic.

As part of KBJ's nomination to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, she 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.

On subsequent filings, however, Jackson "repeatedly failed to disclose that her husband received income from medical malpractice consulting fees," the letter states.

"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.

The word 'inadvertently' is defined by Dictionary,.com as: adverb, unintentionally; without meaning to. So one can surmise by KBJ's explanation that she meant to report the income but somehow, without meaning to, did not report it . . . for over ten years!

Maybe she didn't know that it was the law, after all, what does she know about the law when she cannot even tell us what is a woman because she isn't a biologist? But wait--she is a lawyer who became a judge and now a Supreme Court Justice of the United States. She should have known that it was legally required. Many people who are not biologists cannot define what is a woman, but she ought to be able to know what is legal and illegal using her standards.

Vought states that "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."

Vought argues that her Dr. Jackson’s income does not qualify for the "self-employment" exception. The Ethics in Government Act of 1978 (EIGA) requires Justice Jackson to identify the "source of items of earned income earned by a spouse from any person which exceeds $1,000." He also notes that since KBJ knew of the requirements in 2012 well 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’s income, her actions amount to "willful" violation of the law.

No wonder the Biden administration likes her and nominated her for the Supreme Court. She fits right in.

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Biden to nominate Brown Jackson to SCOTUS

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Ketani Brown Jackson

When our alleged President Joe Biden was a US senator, on two occasions he opposed and filibustered the nomination of Janice Rogers Brown to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. In a cool move by Republican Sen. Josh Hawley, he tweeted that Biden should "make amends" and nominate her for the soon to be open SCOTUS slot. See, Judge Brown is a Black woman and Biden prevented her from moving ahead in her career.

Instead of Judge Brown, our alleged president has reportedly selected a different woman of color for the position, leaving out a pool of 93 percent of the remainder of American possibilities for the sake of being openly racist while pretending to be woke, which itself is a form of racism. His nomination is reported to be Ketani Brown Jackson. She would replace Justice Stephen Breyer, who was selected to the Supreme Court in the Bill Clinton/Monica Lewinsky et al, era.

The Compromised News Network reported the story on Friday morning, citing a reliable [LOL] source, "a source who has been notified about the decision.” The source wished to remain anonymous as he or she did not want to be associated with the network and its scandals.

“Biden has reached a decision on his first nominee to the Supreme Court, people familiar with the selection said Thursday, with his historic selection of the first Black woman to serve on the nation’s highest court set to be revealed as soon as Friday,” CNN first reported on Thursday to the seven viewers at La Guardia Airport who were not, at the time, on their phones.

Biden had allegedly interviewed three women all by himself as potential nominees to be his Supreme Court justice pick, with the White House previously indicating that he would share his decision by Monday. 

He initially made it known that he is only considering a Black woman for the highest court in the land, but did not specify whether or not she had more intersectional victimhood status. His picks were J. Michelle Childs of South Carolina and California Supreme Court Justice Leondra Kruger in addition to Brown Jackson.

Biden reportedly based his final decision for the nomination on Brown Jackson's name because it has the word "Brown" in it.

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This week, some Democrats have shown support of Biden allegedly picking Brown Jackson. Ben Crump, a famed race-hustling attorney involved in the George Floyd case, also wrote an op-ed calling on President Joe Biden to nominate Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court . . . or else.

A number of Brown Jackson's rulings had been overturned by higher courts, by the way.

The mumbling announcement should come on Friday after "I Love Lucy."

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