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 complaints that Justice Clarence Thomas violated ethics laws to the Department of Justice for investigation. The national policymaking body for the federal courts on

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

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

"There is reason to doubt that the Conference has any such authority,” a top judiciary official told Democratic lawmakers Sheldon Whitehouse and Hank Johnson.

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

The head of the Judicial Conference said there is legal uncertainty over whether it has the authority to refer complaints about Supreme Court justices.

The U.S. Judicial Conference decided to not make criminals referrals to the Justice Department over separate ethics complaints against Justice Thomas violating ethics protocols.

The federal courts will not refer allegations that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas may have violated ethics laws to the Justice Department, the judiciary's policymaking body says.