Ketanji Brown Jackson Faces Calls to Be Investigated Over Husband's Income

The Center for Renewing America, a conservative think tank, said on Tuesday that it has filed an ethics complaint against Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, accusing her of failing to disclose information about her husband's income and to reveal the funders behind a private event marking her swearing in to the nation's high court.

The letter written by Russell Vought, think tank president who served in the administration of former President Donald Trump as director of the Office of Management and Budget, was addressed to Roslynn R. Mauskopf, head of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts.

Vought alleges that Jackson, who was appointed to the Supreme Court by President Joe Biden last year, failed to disclose income from the medical malpractice consulting fees of her husband, surgeon Patrick Jackson. The allegations say that Jackson acknowledged in her 2020 disclosure form filed in 2022 that previous reports had mistakenly omitted her husband's income.

The reporting of the income later was not enough, Vought wrote in his letter.

"The fact that she referenced her omission in 2022 and did not correct it as required is more indicia of her willfulness to not report this information," Vought argued.

Newsweek contacted the Supreme Court's Public Information Office via email on Tuesday for comment.

Jackson may need to recuse herself in some cases to avoid conflicts of interest, Vought contended.

Newsweek also contacted the Center for Renewing America via email for comment on Tuesday.

Vought also asked that Jackson be investigated over her court investiture celebration, accusing her of failing to disclose private contributions toward the event marking her swearing in to the high court.

He argues in the letter dated December 18 that ethics rules required Jackson to declare the funders of the event if the amount spent topped $415.

Failure to do so would be in violation of the 1978 Ethics and Government Act (EIGA), Vought said in the complaint.

"If private sources did indeed contribute anything in excess of $415 to Justice Jackson's investiture celebration, her failure to disclose such private funding is clearly a willful omission in violation of EIGA," Vought wrote.