Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's nominee financial disclosure from March 2022 reveals she "Inadvertently omitted" consulting income her spouse "Periodically receives from consulting on medical malpractice cases" on previous reports.
Conservative legal experts said Jackson's disclosure, along with amendments Justice Sonia Sotomayor has made to her reports, show attacks on Clarence Thomas for his alleged ethics violation in failing to disclose expense paid vacations he received from his friend and billionaire real estate developer Harlan Crow are hypocritical.
Conservative legal scholars are calling attacks on Clarence Thomas for his alleged ethics violations hypocritical in light of Ketanji Brown Jackson's financial disclosure as a nominee, which shows she omitted portions of her income on previous filings, including money from her husband's consulting work.
Jackson's nominee disclosure filed in March 2022, which notes that she "Inadvertently omitted" income her spouse "Periodically receives from consulting on medical malpractice cases" on prior reports, has received little attention, which legal experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation shows there is a double standard for conservative justices.
Justices Jackson, Amy Coney Barrett and Thomas, along with Chief Justice John Roberts, all have spouses who do consulting work.
"But if a conservative Justice makes an amendment, that Justice is corrupt. The double standard toward conservatives reeks."
"For Democrats to pretend that Justice Thomas' disclosures-related to his best friend of 25 years, with no business before the Supreme Court-were an unprecedented scandal is yet another smear against a justice they've tried to chase off the court for the last 31 years," he said.
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