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

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