There Is Something Strange Happening With Ronny Jackson's Legal Expenses

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There Is Something Strange Happening With Ronny Jackson’s Legal Expenses

It’s unclear what he’s using the legal expense fund for.

By Claire Heddles April 3, 2025 05:37 AM





................Jackson’s legal expense fund also raises questions around his involvement in Donald Trump’s lawsuit against CBS over their editing of Kamala Harris’ campaign interview. CBS lawyers said the lawmaker joining the suit was “naked forum-shopping” in order to keep the case before a friendly judge in Texas. But campaign finance experts say it also raises questions around how he’s paying his attorneys.

“If he had asked to create one for the purpose of participating in this private lawsuit for which he’s asking for $10 billion? They would have said, ‘Uh no you can’t have a legal defense fund for this purpose,” one longtime campaign finance attorney who was not authorized by their law firm to speak on the matter told NOTUS. “Which then raises the other question of who is paying the lawyers representing him in this lawsuit? Because he can’t accept the gift of free legal services either.”

Jackson is likely barred from accepting pro bono representation for the CBS case since House ethics rules only allow members to accept pro bono representation for cases related to federal laws, regulations or actions.

He could pay for his legal representation in the CBS case through personal funds or a leadership PAC, the campaign finance expert told NOTUS, but Jackson has not publicly said how he’s paying lawyers or why he has a legal defense fund.........................

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Under House ethics rules, members of Congress can only open legal expense funds for a narrow set of reasons. Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call via AP

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1. There isn't anything STRANGE about illegal, unethical, or contrariwise-to-rules

behavior by Repugs/MAGAts. That is the norm.