What do you think about the ethics complaint against Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson?

Oh – playing “I know I am but what are you?” all day and night really serves the American people well!

I can’t think of something I care about less.

It’s interesting, but not sure it would mean much. If this had come up before her nomination, it might have made a difference. The charges, as I can see them, are addressing incidents that occurred from 2012 to 2020. I’m pretty sure there is some sort of statute of limitations for these things and this would make most of this meaningless. Additionally, it was from a time when she was a district court judge, not a SCOTUS justice.

All of these silly ethics claims on the SCOTUS justices don’t mean much if they aren’t acting unethically. For instance, if Justice Jackson was still benefitting from money her husband earns in medical malpractice cases and one of those cases came to the SCOTUS, she should recuse herself. If she did not, THEN there would be an actual case to be made that she was unethical.

Each of the justices are supposed to fill out forms identifying where they get income from. If it were found that one or more of them were purposely hiding things, knowing that they might hear a case on that, it would be unethical in my book. Unfortunately, the SCOTUS is the group that oversees the SCOTUS. If a justice brings an ethics charge against another justice, then there would be action.

This is the first I’ve heard of it.

I wonder how any income that was not declared compares to the omissions of Clarence Thomas, and whether Jackson received any gifts from various industries the way that Thomas has. It is a disgrace for him to accept such gifts.

This was inevitable when Democrats started going after conservatives. Both sides never seem to realize that when you escalate the mud-slinging, the other side will escalate too.

The “Center For Renewing America” is a radical-right Trump-aligned group that includes Trump’s co-conspirators in the Georgia criminal case.

The complaint is designed to clog the discourse with a minor matter (her husband worked as a trial consultant) in order to distract from the corruption of Clarence Thomas, who has been taking huge amounts in cash and gifts from hard-right benefactors.

NPR – Aug 10, 2023 – Thomas accepted more gifts from billionaire benefactors, new ProPublica report says

Thomas is a toad !

If the perception that court reform is necessary and bipartisan can start to sink in, I’m all for lots of investigations. Daylight is the best disinfectant.