Anybody think this is gonna result in anything?
“There is reasonable cause to believe that Justice Thomas willfully failed to file information required to be reported under the Ethics in Government Act of 1978,” the Democrats wrote.
U.S. District Judge Roslynn R. Mauskopf, director of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, responded Tuesday to say the lawmakers’ complaint had been referred to the authorized committee.
“I have forwarded your letter to the Judicial Conference Committee on Financial Disclosure, which is responsible for implementing the disclosure provisions of the Ethics in Government Act and addressing allegations of errors or omissions in the filing of financial disclosure reports,” Mauskopf wrote in a letter obtained by The Washington Post.
Her short reply did not indicate how or whether the committee would proceed….
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Legal ethics experts could not recall any judge or justice sanctioned in a case brought by the attorney general. In 2014, the Justice Department investigated the travel expenses of a federal appeals court judge and declined to prosecute him.
Thomas has amended his financial disclosure reports in the past in response to reports that they were incomplete.
In 2011, after the watchdog group Common Cause raised red flags, Thomas updated years of his financial disclosure reports to include employment details for his wife, conservative activist Virginia “Ginni” Thomas. The justice said at the time that he had not understood the filing instructions.