Jane Roberts, the wife of Chief Justice John Roberts, acknowledges having represented a wide variety of public officials — including senior Justice Department officials and Cabinet members — as they transitioned to jobs in the private sector, according to testimony in an arbitration hearing to resolve a lawsuit filed by an ex-colleague against her former legal recruiting business.
“A significant portion of my practice on the partner side is with senior government lawyers, ranging from U.S. attorneys, cabinet officials, former senators, chairmen of federal commissions, general counsel of federal commissions, and then senior political appointees within the ranks of various agencies, and I -- they come to me looking to transition to the private sector,” Roberts said, according to a transcript of a 2015 arbitration hearing related to her former colleague’s termination.
The high court also noted that the federal government’s rules for financial disclosures generally do not require public disclosure of the clients of officials’ spouses. “That concern, together with the failure of the Chief Justice to recuse himself in cases where his spouse received compensation from law firms arguing cases before the Court, or at least advise the parties of his spouse’s financial arrangements with law firms arguing before the Court, threaten the public’s trust in the federal judiciary, and the Supreme Court itself,” Gershman wrote.
“The national controversy and debate regarding the integrity of the Supreme Court demanded that I no longer keep silent about the information I possessed, regardless of the impact such disclosures might have upon me professionally and personally,” Price said. “Not sharing it with the appropriate authorities for purposes of enabling them to investigate weighed on me increasingly, and I felt obligated to make this contribution to this important national conversation.
Price’s suit against Major Lindsey was moved from a Massachusetts state court to an arbitrator, who eventually ruled against Price. In his affidavit, he noted that he only directly interacted with Jane Roberts once during his time as an employee of Major Lindsey. “We’re well down the road from that,” Dratel said. “This is about the nation and the integrity of the court and knowing something that contributes to that. … He didn’t publish this. He sent it to Congress.”
HouseDemocrats SenateDems PattyMurray RepRickLarsen, can you do anything to please address SCOTUS ethics or lack thereof 🤦🏽♀️
SIfill_ But the representation she provides is to help people transition OUT of government service and so they would be unable to provide favors or influence. Whether there is an actual conflict of interest; there is certainly the appearance of a conflict - which the SCt should avoid.
Sure smells like influence peddling
SIfill_ This explains a lot about his inaction on Ginny and Clarence Thomas’ ethical violations.
SIfill_ Wow. The fuckery runs deep and wide.
I'm just SHOCKED, SHOCKED I tell you.
SIfill_ It is a broken institution, and John Roberts broke it.
SIfill_ Corrupt to the core
SIfill_ I bet they do come to her
Seriously the most comically corrupt group of scumbags on the planet.
Corrupt to the core. The most illegitimate SCOTUS in the United States history. The entire GQP is just a criminal enterprise out to grift anyway/anywhere/anyhow they can:
This is all the way fucked up.
How about a report of the Project Veritas interview with the Pfizer executive. 50 million views on Twitter, could be something your readers might want to know..
Let me guess all of her employers were Republicans right?
SenWhitehouse what is going on! This is INSANE! ⬇️
Roberts as corrupt as any
NormOrnstein ☝️ the supreme court is broken!
So, now the Chief Justice's spouse can't have her own career? Not very enlightened, that.
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