Chief Justice John Roberts punts on request to investigate Clarence Thomas

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Chief Justice Roberts’ Wife Is Latest Supreme Court Spouse To Spark Ethics Concerns.

The wife of Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts is facing scrutiny for potential conflict of interests after a former colleague warned the Justice Department and Congress about her role as a recruiter for law firms, the New York Times reports, the latest ethical issue to face the court after Justice Clarence Thomas’ wife already came under fire for potential conflicts.
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Jane Sullivan Roberts, a legal recruiter, has earned “millions” in commissions for recruiting attorneys for jobs at law firms, which include firms that have cases before the Supreme Court, her former colleague Kendal Price said, according to a letter obtained by the Times.

Price provided records to the federal government showing commissions the justice’s wife earned between 2007 and 2014, and asked for an inquiry into the matter, arguing it should be mandatory for justices to disclose information about their spouses’ work.

Price sued Jane Sullivan Roberts in 2014 after he was fired from her recruiting firm—the suit ended in arbitration a year later, and the attorney who represented Price in his suit against Roberts and her firm, James E. O’Connell, Jr., has not yet responded to a request for comment.

Price did not cite specific cases that are of particular concern to the chief justice’s work, but cited Jane Sullivan Roberts placing Obama-era Interior Secretary Ken Salazar at WilmerHale, a large law firm that has argued more than 125 cases at the high court, as an example, the Times reports.

The chief justice has never recused himself from a case due to his wife and does not disclose her clients or earnings on financial disclosures, according to the Times, only reporting her salary but not commissions—but Price argued that’s misleading, as commissions “depend on cultivating and capitalizing on relationships in order to consummate particular deals.”

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2023/01/31/chief-justice-roberts-wife-is-latest-supreme-court-spouse-to-spark-ethics-concerns/?sh=1c348595bb80