Judiciary won’t refer Clarence Thomas, Ketanji Brown Jackson to DOJ over ethics 

The federal judiciary’s policymaking body will not refer allegations that Justices Clarence Thomas and Ketanji Brown Jackson violated federal ethics laws to the Justice Department. In identical letters sent Thursday to Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.), who requested investigations into Thomas over ProPublica reports about free trips he accepted, the Judicial...