The weaponization of financial disclosure forms is alive and well. But per usual, the heightened scrutiny is only applied against conservatives.
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., is reportedly considering holding a hearing to investigate the Judicial Conference’s handling of Justice Clarence Thomas’s inadvertent omission of his wife’s salary from the Heritage Foundation and Hillsdale College on his financial disclosure forms in the early 2000s. This is a curious matter to investigate since Thomas amended his forms as soon as the mistake was brought to his attention in 2011. But while Whitehouse continues his relentless attacks on Thomas, he is ignoring a much more egregious disclosure omission. Democrat senators have failed to acknowledge that for years Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has failed to disclose all of the sources of her husband’s income.
Under the Ethics in Government Act, federal judges are required to disclose the source(s) of a spouse’s income. When Thomas made an inadvertent omission and it was brought to his attention, he immediately amended his forms. Jackson made a similar omission, but unlike Thomas, she apparently has failed to amend her forms and has not provided the source of her husband’s income more than a year after her mistake was identified. That’s a problem that needs to be corrected immediately.
When Jackson was nominated to the Supreme Court in 2022, she filed an amended financial disclosure form for calendar year 2020 and noted that she had failed to disclose several items on her previous forms. Most notably, she repeatedly failed
