Federal appeals court blocks Biden admin from removing Texas’ razor wire at southern border
A federal appeals court handed the state of Texas a win on Tuesday when it temporarily blocked the Biden administration from removing razor wire barriers placed at the border by Texas authorities. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the government is barred during the appeal from “damaging, destroying, or otherwise interfering with Texas’s [concertina wire] fence in the vicinity of Eagle Pass, Texas” unless it is for a medical emergency. The state sued the Biden administration in October over its cutting or damaging of the more than 29 miles of concertina wire along the border in order to allow illegal immigrants to enter deeper into the U.S. TOP HOUSE COMMITTEE RENEWS DEMAND FOR DOCS FROM DHS ON TEXAS BORDER WIRE CUTTING “By cutting Texas’s concertina wire, the federal government has not only illegally destroyed property owned by the State of Texas; it has also disrupted the State’s border security efforts, leaving gaps in Texas’s border barriers and damaging Texas’s ability to effectively deter illegal entry into its territory,” Texas said. The state had installed the wire near key crossing areas where there have been massive surges of illegal immigration in recent years. The federal government has said that once migrants are on U.S. soil, Border Patrol agents must apprehend them, and has claimed the wire “inhibits Border Patrol’s ability to patrol the border.” TEXAS AG PAXTON SUES BIDEN ADMIN OVER CUTTING OF RAZOR WIRE AT SOUTHERN BORDER A DHS spokesperson told Fox in October that it does not comment on pending litigation, but “generally speaking, Border Patrol agents have a responsibility under federal law to take those who have crossed onto U.S. soil without authorization into custody for processing, as well as to act when there are conditions that put our workforce or migrants at risk.” A federal judge had initially blocked agents from cutting razor wire, but later reversed that decision, saying the state hadn’t met the requirements to issue a wider injunction. Texas appealed and on Tuesday the Fifth Circuit Court found in Texas’ favor, meaning that for now the wire cannot be damaged or removed. The ruling comes as the area has seen a fresh surge in migration, with a record 12,600+ encounters on Monday border-wide. As of Tuesday morning, agents in Eagle Passwere processing more than 4,500 and had 5,300 in custody. Texas launched Operation Lone Star in 2021 to surge resources and law enforcement to the border, with other moves including the building of a border wall and the construction of a buoy barrier in the Rio Grande itself. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday signed legislation to allow Texas law enforcement officers to arrest someone they suspect has entered illegally. The law was immediately condemned by the White House and civil rights groups. Fox News’ Bill Melugin, Griff Jenkins and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Union Pacific warns border crossing closing due to migrant crisis hurts cross-border trade as Christmas nears
Union Pacific is calling for the re-opening of two key border crossings in Texas that have been shut due to the ongoing migrant crisis, warning that the continued closures will severely impact cross-border trade just as Christmas and New Years are just days away. The railroad company is demanding that the crossings in El Paso and Eagle Pass, where Border Patrol agents have been overwhelmed by a surge in migrants coming into the U.S., be “re-opened immediately.” “These locations represent 45% of cross-border Union Pacific business and include goods critical to the U.S. economy,” the company said in a statement. “There isn’t enough capacity at our other four gateways to reroute them.” SOUTHERN BORDER HIT BY RECORD NUMBER OF MIGRANT ENCOUNTERS IN A SINGLE DAY AS THOUSANDS FLOOD INTO TEXAS “With Christmas and the New Year’s holidays just days away, Union Pacific is in close communication with multiple government agencies and our customers, urging that the crossings closed by U.S. Customs and Border Protection be reopened,” the statement said. CBP has taken a number of actions to handle migrant traffic, including diverting agents away from other stations to help with the processing of migrants in places like Eagle Pass — where agents were processing more than 4,500 on Tuesday morning after a massive surge, and already 5,300 in custody. Across the border, Monday saw a record number of daily encounters, with over 12,600 overall, including 11,000 illegal immigrant apprehensions, sources told Fox News. It’s the latest in a number of records set during the nearly three-year migrant crisis. Union Pacific said it “[understands] this is a complex humanitarian crisis” but said that “most migrants are not crossing the border on trains.” It also highlighted its own security measures that it uses, including technology including X-ray to detect people and contraband. “Every day that the border is closed, Union Pacific is forced to embargo customers’ goods on more than 60 trains, or nearly 4,500 rail cars, with an equivalent of goods being held in Mexico,” the company said. “Union Pacific is doing everything possible to stage trains and work with customers to prevent congestion at the border. The longer this closure is in effect, the more difficult it will be for cross-border trade to resume.” It stressed the impacted goods included agricultural products including grain, food and beverages, automotive parts and consumer goods. 5,000 ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS RELEASED EVERY DAY INTO US, ADMIN OFFICIALS PRIVATELY TELL LAWMAKERS Meanwhile, talks are ongoing in Washington about policy changes to asylum limits in order to secure agreement on a supplemental funding request from the White House — including $14 billion for border funding. Lawmakers say there has been progress, but there is unlikely to be a deal before the New Year. Fox News’ Bill Melugin and Griff Jenkins contributed to this report.
Conservatives lash out at Trump after he attacks Chip Roy, calls for him to face primary challenge: ‘Idiotic’
Former President Donald Trump took flak from a number of conservatives on Tuesday after he attacked Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, as a “RINO,” or Republican in name only, and called for him to face a primary challenge. “Has any smart and energetic Republican in the Great State of Texas decided to run in the Primary against RINO Congressman Chip Roy. For the right person, he is very beatable. If interested, let me know!!!” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social late Monday after Roy appeared in Iowa in support of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign. Conservative politicians and commentators quickly jumped to Roy’s defense on social media, blasting Trump’s comments as “laughably insane” and “idiotic.” NIKKI HALEY TAKES AIM AT GOP RIVAL FOR CAMPAIGNING WITH ‘ANTI-ISRAEL’ MEMBER OF CONGRESS “While [Chip Roy] is fighting to do what Donald Trump promised to do — secure our southern border — the former president is on social media demanding a primary challenge to one of the most conservative members of Congress,” DeSantis wrote before noting that the filing deadline for candidates in Texas had already passed. “I stand with Chip and am honored to have his support. The time for talking is over. We must stop the invasion, and I will get it done,” he added. Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., a supporter of DeSantis’ campaign for president, also said he stood with Roy before calling Trump’s comments a “shortsighted effort to intimidate” him. NEW POLL REVEALS AMERICA’S LEAST FAVORITE LEADER IN CONGRESS WITH SHOCKING SINGLE-DIGIT APPROVAL “I support you for President, [Donald Trump]. But I’m 100% on board with [Chip Roy]. Chip is no RINO. He’s an American hero. He’s a constitutionalist. He’s a patriot. And most of all, he’s a good man who selflessly serves in Congress,” American Blockchain PAC CEO Jim Pfaff wrote. Stephen Miller, a contributing editor at The Spectator, wrote, “Trump, who caved on bump stocks and Fauci is calling Chip Roy of Texas a RINO and to be primaried it’s just laughable at this point. It’s laughably insane. Run it back, guys.” Conservative commentator John Cardillo called Trump’s attack on Roy an “idiotic lie,” and said anyone who didn’t call out the former president’s “stupidity” was a “cultist.” FORMER TRUMP ADVISER KELLYANNE CONWAY LEADS CHARGE TO OVERHAUL GOP ABORTION STRATEGY, END DEMS’ 2024 ADVANTAGE “This is so nuts as to be comical. If you think Chip Roy — Chip Roy — is a RINO, then words have no meaning,” Mark Krikorian, the executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies wrote. Roy also posted his own response to Trump’s attack, simply posting a photo of the former president with Dr. Anthony Fauci, a figure often scorned by conservatives. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Roy is currently running unopposed in the Republican primary for Texas’ 21st Congressional District, which he has represented since 2019. When reached for comment, Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung told Fox News Digital, “Chip Roy made a blunder endorsing a moron like Ron DeSanctus, who is violently falling out of the sky like a wounded bird.” Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more at our Fox News Digital election hub.
An El Paso woman is suing her doctor for negligence over an unwanted pregnancy
Grissel Velasco paid her doctor to perform a tubal ligation about a decade ago, but still became pregnant.
Texas slapped with lawsuit over new law allowing police to arrest migrants who cross the border illegally
Civil rights groups, including the ACLU, filed a lawsuit against the State of Texas on Tuesday over a new law that gives police the authority to arrest migrants who cross the border illegally and allows judges to order them to leave the U.S. The American Civil Liberties Union, its Texas branch, and the Texas Civil Rights Project claim on behalf of El Paso County and two immigrant aid groups that the new law, Senate Bill 4, is unconstitutional and preempted by federal law. The ACLU of Texas called the law the nation’s “most extreme anti-immigration law.” “SB4 lets police arrest people over ‘suspicions’ about immigration status and judges deport people without due process,” the group said in an X post. “This is unconstitutional and will harm Black and Brown Texans the most.” ACLU of Texas argued that the law would lead to “racial profiling” and “harassment” with police stopping people because of their skin color or the language they speak. MANY SENATORS HAVE ALREADY LEFT TOWN AMID BORDER NEGOTIATIONS AS ILLEGAL CROSSINGS HIT RECORD Republican Gov. Greg Abbott signed SB4 during a ceremony on the U.S. border in Brownsville on Tuesday. Immigration enforcement is a federal responsibility. But the law that Abbott signed allows any Texas law enforcement officer to arrest people who are suspected of entering the country illegally. Once in custody, they could either agree to a Texas judge’s order to leave the U.S. or be prosecuted on misdemeanor charges of illegal entry. Migrants who don’t leave could face arrest again under more serious felony charges. Opponents have called the measure a dramatic attempt by a state to police immigration since a 2010 Arizona law — denounced by critics as the “Show Me Your Papers” bill — that was largely struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court. A White House spokesperson said Tuesday that SB4 “will make communities in Texas less safe.” SOUTHERN BORDER HIT BY RECORD NUMBER OF MIGRANT ENCOUNTERS IN A SINGLE DAY AS THOUSANDS FLOOD INTO TEXAS Fox News Digital has reached out to Abbott’s office for a response to the new lawsuit. SB4 takes effect in March. Texas Republicans, meanwhile, say the Biden administration isn’t doing nearly enough to control the nearly 2,000-mile southern border. Texas has bused more than 65,000 migrants to cities across America since August 2022 and recently installed razor wire along the banks of the Rio Grande. Fiscal Year 2023 has broken new records, with more than 2.4 million migrant encounters at the border. September saw a record for encounters at the southern border, while the following month saw a record for encounters in October — with more than 240,000 encounters border-wide. Funding for more resources at the border has stalled in recent weeks, as Republicans demand it be coupled with restrictions on asylum and the use of parole — a demand which some Democrats have balked at.
Biden daughter adds to lengthy family history of tax issues
President Biden has repeatedly called for wealthy individuals and corporations to cough up more money in taxes, even as Biden family members repeatedly failed to pay their own taxes. Fox News Digital reported Monday that Ashley Biden, the president’s daughter, owes over $5,000 in income taxes, according to a tax lien. She’s the latest in a string of Bidens who have faced such situations over the years. “The scale is not anything like Hunter, but… Joe is constantly talking about how wealthy and connected people do not pay their fair share and can afford to pay more, and it just so happens that both of his living children did not pay their taxes,” Garrett Ziegler, the founder of nonprofit Marco Polo and former President Trump aide, told Fox News Digital. “This is just another example of the Bidens being careless,” he said. “You’d think that they would show a little bit more prudence when you’re the American first family to make sure you don’t have any tax liens on you, especially going into an election year.” BIDEN’S DAUGHTER OWES THOUSANDS IN INCOME TAXES, LIEN DOCUMENTS SHOW The Pennsylvania Department of Revenue in Philadelphia County notified Ashley Biden on Dec. 1st about her unpaid taxes. The lien listed the start date as Jan. 1, 2015, when Joe Biden was serving as the vice president in the Obama administration, and it ended on Jan. 1, 2021, just days before he entered office as president. Hunter Biden, meanwhile, allegedly carried out a multiyear scheme to bypass paying $1.4 million in federal taxes while living an indulgent lifestyle that included spending significant sums on escorts and illegal drugs, according to his California indictment on nine tax-related charges. Special Counsel David Weiss said he “engaged in a four-year scheme to not pay at least $1.4 million in self-assessed federal taxes he owed for tax years 2016 through 2019, from in or about January 2017 through in or about October 15, 2020, and to evade the assessment of taxes for tax year 2018 when he filed false returns in or about February 2020,” which was in the middle of his dad’s presidential campaign. Weiss added that, in “furtherance of that scheme,” Hunter Biden “subverted the payroll and tax withholding process of his own company, Owasco, PC by withdrawing millions” from the company “outside of the payroll and tax withholding process that it was designed to perform.” Hunter Biden had allegedly “spent millions of dollars on an extravagant lifestyle rather than paying his tax bills,” and in 2018, “stopped paying his outstanding and overdue taxes for tax year 2015.” He faces up to 17 years in prison if convicted. BIDEN ADMIN AGENCY QUIETLY LEANED ON SOROS AND OTHER BILLIONAIRE-BACKED GROUPS FOR KEY POLICY ROLES However, Hunter and Ashley are not alone, as several other Biden family members have also faced tax issues. President Biden’s brother, James Biden, previously had at least five liens filed against him between 1995 and 2015, including one in the amount of $589,095, the Washington Free Beacon reported in 2020. President Biden’s other brother, Frank Biden, previously had at least three tax liens for unpaid income taxes. President Biden’s sister, Valerie Biden Owens, and her husband, John Owens, have faced at least five tax liens, including one in the amount of $229,749 in 1990, according to the Free Beacon. Despite his family’s tax issues, President Biden has repeatedly called on the rich to pay their fair share in taxes and vowed to go after “tax cheats.” “Corporations need to pay their fair share in taxes,” Biden posted on social media in November 2019. “I’ll reverse Trump’s giveaway to the super-wealthy and corporations because it’s time we reward work, not just wealth.” “As president, I’ll make sure giant corporations and the super-wealthy pay their fair share in taxes — and then invest that money in growing a stronger, more inclusive middle class,” he wrote weeks later in December 2019. Biden has persisted in the calls throughout his presidency and, at one point, proposed doubling the number of Internal Revenue Service workers to target tax cheats. “The president’s compliance proposals are designed to ameliorate existing inequities by focusing on high-end evasion,” the Treasury Department wrote in a report, according to Politico. WHITE HOUSE SCRAMBLES TO DISTANCE ITSELF FROM ISLAMIC GROUP AFTER LEADER’S PRAISE FOR HAMAS’ OCT 7TH SLAUGHTER “These unpaid taxes come at a cost to American households and compliant taxpayers as policymakers choose rising deficits, lower spending on necessary priorities, or further tax increases to compensate for the lost revenue.” Biden has also said paying higher taxes is “patriotic” and has regularly singled out the rich. “For too long we’ve had an economy that gives every break in the world to the folks who need it the least. It’s time to grow the economy from the bottom up,” Biden said months after entering office and calling on the rich to pay their “fair share” in taxes. “I’m a capitalist, but just pay your fair share,” Biden said at his State of the Union address this year. The White House, Frank Biden, Valerie Biden Owens and James Biden did not respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment. Ashley Biden did not respond to a previous request for comment.
Fox News Politics: Holiday Rush
Welcome to Fox News’ Politics newsletter with the latest political news from Washington D.C. and updates from the 2024 campaign trail. Subscribe now to get Fox News Politics newsletter in your inbox. -Many senators have left town for the holidays -Trump edges Biden again in new 2024 survey -Georgia Gov. Kemp announces $1K year-end bonus for teachers The besieged U.S. southern border saw a record number of migrant encounters in a single day on Monday, as thousands flooded into Eagle Pass, Texas, amid a broader surge in recent weeks that has left authorities overwhelmed. There were over 12,600 migrant encounters on Monday, Customs and Border Protection sources told Fox. That does not include the thousands still waiting for processing in the Del Rio Sector on Monday evening after a surge of migrants into Eagle Pass. The number includes over 11,000 illegal immigrant apprehensions and over 1,600 encountered at ports of entry. As of Tuesday morning, sources told Fox that agents are still processing and transporting more than 4,500 migrants at the busy crossing point, with more than 5,300 already in custody and facilities at 260% over capacity. ‘INCREASED COSTS’: Biden’s war on appliances faces major legal challenge …Read more ‘CLEAR MESSAGE’: Biden eco actions locking up land facing Supreme Court review …Read more WHY SO ‘SERIOUS’?: Vulnerable Dem senator promotes TikTok account after saying he had ‘serious concerns’ about CCP ties …Read more OUT OF OFFICE: Most senators have left town as votes and border negotiations remain in the fray …Read more BORDER CRISIS: Biden campaign co-chair ‘afraid’ president will lose big because of illegal immigration surge …Read more ‘FREE-FOR-ALL’: Voters describe ‘chaotic’ crisis at southern border …Read more NEW POLL: Trump edges Biden again in new 2024 survey, builds support with younger voters …Read more AD WARS: Super PACs supporting Trump and Haley launch dueling ads in New Hampshire …Read more FIRST ON FOX: Over 500 elected officials back DeSantis as he’s joined by top conservatives in final Iowa push …Read more JOE ‘GRINCH’: GOP blames Biden for rising cost of holiday goods in new attack ad …Read more ‘MISLEADING’ VOTERS: Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds of Iowa charges that an ad from former President Donald Trump is “misleading” voters in her state …Read more MERRY CHRISTMAS: Georgia Gov. Kemp announces $1K year-end bonus for teachers …Read more ‘ENDING A NIGHTMARE’: NY Gov. Kathy Hochul signs bill creating reparations commission despite concerns of ‘racial divisions’ …Read more Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more on FoxNews.com.
ICE launches 60-day evaluation of California detention facility amid GOP demands to fully reopen
FIRST ON FOX: Immigration and Customs Enforcement is launching a 60-day task order to evaluate a California detention center that can house up to 2,000 illegal immigrants but has been nearly empty since a COVID-era order and was expected to close as soon as this month — amid Republican calls to fully re-open. The facility in Adelanto, California, can house nearly 2,000 inmates but was blocked by a September 2020 court order in response to a lawsuit from immigrant activists calling for fewer inmates due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The emergency declaration for COVID-19 was ended by the Biden administration in May, but while other facilities and prisons have opened back up, Adelanto remains limited, and only a handful of inmates live there. ICE TO CLOSE CALIF. FACILITY ABLE TO HOLD 2,000 ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS AMID ONGOING CRISIS: SOURCES Republicans have accused the administration of not doing enough to challenge the order and of “enforcement malpractice” at a time when thousands of illegal immigrants are being released onto the streets each day. Rep. Jay Obernolte, R-Calif., has accused the administration of making “negligible” efforts to rectify the legal limbo and said that it should purse “all available avenues” to lift the ban. Fox News Digital reported last month that the facility was expected to close as early as mid-December, a move that the National Federation of Federal Employees warned would have a “devastating” impact on the more than 300 workers staffing the facility, particularly before Christmas. But in a statement on Tuesday, ICE said it had issued the 60-day task order with the GEO Group, which runs the facility, and stressed that no final decision has been made regarding the facility. “While no final decision has been made regarding the disposition of the facility, ICE must consider the effect of ongoing litigation that prevents full use of the facility, likelihood of relief from that litigation, the cost associated with maintaining the facility, and the operational requirements for effective national detention operations,” spokesperson Jenny Burke said in a statement. “We are also very keenly aware of the impact to both government and contract employees at the facility.” Burke said the order “provides both the government and the vendor the opportunity to evaluate all factors to ensure that appropriate accommodations can be made for both personnel, operations, and individuals in custody.” “As part of routine strategic operational planning, Enforcement and Removal Operations continually assesses various factors when contemplating changes to the national facility system,” she said. “Discussions with detention providers are critical to ICE’s custody management mission and occur on a regular basis.” ICE DETENTION CENTER HOUSES HANDFUL OF INMATES DESPITE HAVING THOUSANDS OF BEDS: LAWMAKER ICE noted that the agency also has detention capacity in Desert View Annex facility, which is also situated in Adelanto. The move comes amid ongoing negotiations in Washington over the Biden administration’s request for additional border funding, including increased ICE detention. The White House has reportedly been open to additional tougher measures on border-crossers, including a Title 42-type authority to expel migrants, national expedited removal and increased detention. The administration has ended family detention and has closed multiple ICE facilities, but liberal civil rights groups have called for more closures, including dozens of groups calling for such moves along with ICE funding cuts in November last year. Republicans and conservatives have previously said the closing of Adelanto would clash with the administration’s claims that it wants to detain more illegal immigrants, with House Homeland Security Chairman Mark Green saying “its actions tell the real story.” RJ Hauman, president of the National Immigration Center for Enforcement (NICE) said he believes that the administration was trying to avoid “the bad press of people losing jobs around Christmas” with the 60-day review, and urged Republicans to closely monitor the situation. “This decision means nothing unless they plan to work with the Justice Department over the next 60 days to truly reopen Adelanto and then keep it at full capacity,” he said.” Republicans on Capitol Hill must watch closely and stop continuing to flirt with the idea of more money and discretionary authority for the Biden Administration as a means to address the crisis. Hint: it isn’t.”
VP Kamala Harris announces nationwide tour in support of abortion rights
Vice President Kamala Harris is emphasizing abortion as a key issue in the run-up to the 2024 election, preparing numerous rallies around the administration’s pro-choice message. Harris rolled out the Fight for Our Reproductive Freedoms Tour this week as President Biden’s team ramps up efforts for the upcoming election year. “I will continue to fight for our fundamental freedoms while bringing together those throughout America who agree that every woman should have the right to make decisions about her own body — not the government,” Harris said in a statement. This statement was followed with an announcement on social media accompanied by a video message. VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS ATTENDS CELEBRATION BOWL IN SUPPORT OF ALMA MATER: ‘IT WAS A GOOD GAME’ “Across our nation, there is a full-on attack on a woman’s fundamental freedom to make decisions about her own body,” the vice president said. “In the new year, I will be traveling the country to organize, build community and fight back. Because when we fight, we win.” The tour will kick off in Wisconsin Jan. 22, the 51st anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision. KAMALA HARRIS AT ODDS WITH BIDEN OVER ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR, WANTS MORE SUPPORT OF PALESTINIANS: REPORT The nationwide effort is a follow-up to Harris’s Fight for Our Freedoms College Tour. That previous tour aimed to “mobilize young people in the ongoing fight for fundamental freedoms and rights,” according to the White House, particularly causes like “critical fights for reproductive freedom, commonsense gun safety laws, climate action, voting rights, LGBTQ+ equality and teaching America’s full story.” Last month, Harris reacted to a number of polls showing former President Donald Trump was ahead of Biden in hypothetical election matchups — including specific key battleground states — during an interview with CNN and said they were going to have to earn their re-election. “We’re going to have to earn our re-elect, there’s no doubt about it,” she told CNN in a phone interview Sunday, replying to a question about the recent surveys. “It is absolutely right in a democracy with free and fair elections that the candidates, the people who want to continue in leadership, have to make their case and have to make it effectively,” Harris told CNN. “And that means communicating in such a way that the message is received about the accomplishments and what we care about.” Fox News Digital’s Hanna Panreck contributed to this report.
Ketanji Brown Jackson slapped with ethics complaint over husband’s income
FIRST ON FOX — A conservative policy group has filed an ethics complaint against Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson for “willfully” omitting required income disclosures for years while serving on the federal bench. The Center for Renewing America, a think tank led by former senior Trump White House official Russ Vought, sent a letter to the Judicial Conference with allegations that Jackson “willfully failed to disclose” required information about her husband’s malpractice consulting income for more than a decade. The letter suggests that the Judicial Conference should refer Jackson’s possible ethics violations to Attorney General Merrick Garland for investigation and possible civil enforcement. The letter notes that federal judges are legally required to disclose the “source of items of earned income earned by a spouse from any person which exceed $1,000…except…if the spouse is self-employed in business or a profession, only the nature of such business or profession needs be reported.” JUSTICE KETANJI BROWN JACKSON’S DISSENTS ARE BETTER ‘CLICKBAIT’ THAN LEGAL SCHOLARSHIP, EXPERTS SAY As part of her nomination to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Jackson disclosed the names of two legal medical malpractice consulting clients who paid her husband, Dr. Patrick Jackson, more than $1,000 for the year 2011, the letter notes. In subsequent filings, however, Jackson “repeatedly failed to disclose that her husband received income from medical malpractice consulting fees,” the letter reads. “We know this by Justice Jackson’s own admission in her amended disclosure form for 2020, filed when she was nominated to the Supreme Court, that ‘some of my previously filed reports inadvertently omitted’ her husband’s income from ‘consulting on medical malpractice cases,’” the letter says. Vought says in the letter that “Jackson has not even attempted to list the years for which her previously filed disclosures omitted her husband’s consulting income. Instead, in her admission of omissions on her 2020 amended disclosure form (filed in 2022), Justice Jackson provided only the vague statement that ‘some’ of those past disclosures contained material omissions.” Vought, who headed up the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) under President Trump, argues that Dr. Jackson’s income does not qualify for the “self-employment” exception. The Ethics in Government Act of 1978 (EIGA) requires Justice Jackson to identify the “source of items of earned income earned by a spouse from any person which exceeds $1,000.” THOMAS BLASTS JACKSON’S ‘RACE-INFUSED WORLD VIEW’ IN SUPREME COURT RULING OUTLAWING AFFIRMATIVE ACTION The former OMB chief argues that since Jackson was aware of the requirements in 2012 enough to list the specific sources of income for her first disclosure filing but not in subsequent filings, apart from admitting that she left off some of her husband’s income, her actions amount to “willful” violation of the law. The letter also says there is reason to believe Justice Jackson may have failed to report the private funding sources of her “massive investiture celebration at the Library of Congress” in her most recent financial disclosure. Following her appointment to the Supreme Court in 2022, the Library of Congress hosted a massive event in her honor that featured performances by several musicians and groups, including the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Quartet and civil rights movement Freedom Singer Rutha Mae Harris. JUSTICE KETANJI BROWN JACKSON IS LONE DISSENTER AS SUPREME COURT VACATES ABORTION RULING It’s unclear who paid for the event. EIGA requires that any gift “received over $415” be disclosed. EIGA defines “gift” as “a payment, advance, forbearance, rendering, or deposit of money, or [anything] of value.” Jackson’s disclosure for that year includes flowers from Oprah Winfrey with a $1,200 price tag and a designer jacket from her Vogue photo shoot that cost $6,580. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP “Justice Jackson thus cannot claim ignorance of EIGA’s gift disclosure requirements, and there is no serious argument that this ‘massive event featuring performances by several musicians and groups’ celebrating her investiture is not a ‘thing of value,’” Vought said. Vought also says that Jackson’s “disturbing trend of not reporting material sources of income and gifts” has “shielded potential conflicts of interest from public scrutiny and undermined the ability of the public, outside watchdog groups, and parties to scrutinize her recusal decisions.” Fox News Digital reached out to the Supreme Court’s public information office but did not receive an immediate response.