(born 1947) is a former U.S. District Judge of the US District Court for the Southern District of NY appointed by Bill Clinton. This corrupt judge approved the Stasi-FBI raids on Rudy Giuliani and Victoria Toensing’s homes. Jones was appointed in April 2018, to serve as a special master in the Michael Cohen case, the Project Veritas / Ashley Biden diary case, and the FBI Mar-a-lago raid case.
In December 2021, she was named special master for a case involving FBI searches of the homes of Project Veritas employees relating to the two individuals who found Ashley Biden’s diary at a halfway house and sold it to Project Veritas. Jones ruled it was stolen although left her diary under a mattress at the Palm Beach rehab home when she left there. In September 2022, she was chosen by the DOJ as a special master to review documents seized in the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago. She is a Democrat donor.
In 2003, she refused to issue permits to organizers of a planned mass march past the United Nations building in protest of the U.S. run-up to the Iraq War. Jones presided over Edith Windsor’s suit against the United States, United States v. Windsor, challenging the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act, or DOMA.
Jones served as arbitrator in the NFL case against former RB Ray Rice who initially received a 2-game suspension after a domestic violence incident left his then-girlfriend unconscious in the elevator after he struck her. Months later, a video of the incident was released. Commissioner Goodell subsequently suspended Rice indefinitely, stating that the video showed a much more violent incident than Rice had led them to believe. Rice appealed, and won after Mrs. Jones found no evidence that Rice misled the NFL. Jones determined Goodell’s indefinite suspension to be “capricious” and “arbitrary” because he was essentially suspending Rice for the same incident twice.
