Democrats Hold Glaring Double Standards On SCOTUS Financial Disclosures

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Democrats Hold Glaring Double Standards On SCOTUS Financial Disclosures
Democrats have spent weeks going after Clarence Thomas for financial disclosures but turn a blind eye to leftist justices’ ethical slip-ups.
By: Mark Paoletta
May 12, 2023

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 to list her husband’s income from his consulting services on medical malpractice cases. In her amended form, she simply listed “Legal Malpractice consulting” as the source of her husband’s additional income.

But that amendment isn’t enough.   ...

Full story at The Federalist

I hold an appointed position in my state (member of a state commission, appointed by the governor). My annual financial disclosure statement is practically a colonoscopy, and it certainly appears I've been more forthright than Justice KBJ.

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Democrats, and their media allies, hold double standards on everything

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Twitter thread on Whitehouse's hypocrisy. It starts with Whitehouse railing against Alito:

Sheldon Whitehouse
@SenWhitehouse
Begging the question, how someone a justice has “spoken to … on no more than a handful of occasions” could be a close enough friend to provide “personal hospitality.”
Never mind that a private jet ride is not “food, lodging or entertainment” within the meaning of the exemption.
10:19 AM · Jun 27, 2023

A response:

Mark Paoletta
@MarkPaoletta
1/@SenWhitehouse, you mean your partisan & hypocritical smears? Were you concerned when Justice Breyer used billionaire David Rubenstein’s private jet to get to a wedding on Nantucket in 2013?? No “billionaire capture” concerns, regardless of Breyer disclosing trip?

https://twitter.com/MarkPaoletta/status/1673767221565202468