The conference also rejected a conservative group's request to similarly refer liberal Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Justice Department .

The federal courts will not refer allegations that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas may have violated ethics laws to the Justice Department.

A Senate investigation revealed Thomas accepted over $4.75 million in gifts and travel since 1991, much of it undisclosed.

Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Ketanji Brown Jackson will not face further legal action over claims they flouted federal ethics laws. The Judicial Conference will not refer allegations made against the judges to the Justice Department,

The Judicial Conference of the United States declined Friday to refer an ethics investigation of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to the Department of Justice (DOJ) over authority concerns and

The federal judiciary’s policymaking body will not refer allegations that Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Ketanji Brown Jackson violated federal ethics laws to the Justice Department. In identical letters sent Thursday to Sen.