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Federal courts won’t refer Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to attorney general over ethics
The judiciary’s policy-making body announced Thursday that the federal courts will not send allegations of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas possibly violating ethics laws to Justice Department. Thomas has agreed that he will follow updated requirements for reporting gifts and trips, including more clear guidelines regarding hospitality from friends. The Judicial Conference sent a letter…
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More unreported luxury travel by Thomas detailed
The top court’s review urges an enforceable code of Conduct The investigation of Supreme Court Ethics by Democratic Senators lasted nearly two years. It revealed more luxury travels by Justice Clarence Thomas. They also urged Congress to create a code of conduct to be enforced. As Republicans prepare to control the Senate in January it…
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Federal judiciary releases first-ever report on workplace misconduct
The first federal workplace report released on Wednesday shows that between 2021-2023, federal court employees reported more than 100 complaints of abusive behavior. The report was released to address concerns regarding the way in which the judiciary deals with workplace harassment. It defines abusive conduct as a “pattern of demonstrably egregious, hostile” behavior, that interferes…
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Judge Aileen Cannon Failed to Disclose a Right-Wing Junket
Aileen Cannon, federal judge and controversial jurist, who dismissed the criminal case involving classified documents against Donald Trump last July, failed in her disclosure of her attendance at the May 2023 banquet sponsored by a conservative legal school. Cannon attended an event in Arlington honoring late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. Documents obtained by the…
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Newly resigned federal judge is accused of harassing a law clerk and ‘unwanted, offensive, and abusive sexual conduct’
According to the Judicial Council of the Ninth Circuit, Joshua Kindred resigned last week as a U.S. District Court Judge for Alaska after having an “inappropriately sexified relationship” with his law clerk, engaging in “unwanted sexual conduct” and lying about it to the Chief Judge. The findings of the investigation are summed up in a…
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Left and right agree on one thing: The justice system is corrupted by bias
The courts are not equal, and it is naive for anyone to think otherwise. The other day, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was asked a simple question which in an earlier era would have prompted a flurry of banalities from civics classes about the nation of laws or the wisdom of our founding fathers. Anderson…
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North Carolina Supreme Court Secretly Squashed Discipline of Two GOP Judges Who Admitted to Violating Judicial Code
These decisions were made despite Judicial Standards Commission recommendations to publicly reprimand judges. This is likely the first time in over a decade that the court has not followed the commission’s advice. Three sources who were directly involved in the decision say that the North Carolina Supreme Court, behind closed doors, squelched disciplinary actions against…
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Justice Thomas discloses two 2019 trips paid for by Harlan Crow
The 2023 financial disclosure report for Supreme Court Justices shows six-figure payments to Kavanaugh and Gorsuch. According to the financial disclosures for eight of nine Supreme Court justices, Clarence Thomas revealed for the first-time that he visited Bali in 2019 and attended a private club located in California, both paid for by Harlan Crow. Crow…
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Ketanji Brown Jackson ethics complaints referred to judicial conference finance committee
The Committee on Financial Disclosures in the Judicial Conference has received a complaint from Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, alleging that her income was not disclosed. The Center for Renewing America – a conservative policy group – filed a complaint last month with the Judicial Conference, which oversees federal courts, alleging that Jackson had…
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Ketanji Brown Jackson slapped with ethics complaint over husband’s income
Group claims Supreme Court Justice omitted portions on husband’s income for years. A conservative policy group filed an ethics complaint in the United States against Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Jackson, accusing him of “willfully” failing to disclose required income for many years during his tenure on federal benches. The Center for Renewing America (a think…
