Posted on 10/10/2018 5:25:16 PM PDT by tkocur
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. on Wednesday referred more than a dozen judicial misconduct complaints filed recently against Brett M. Kavanaugh to a federal appeals court in Colorado.
The 15 complaints, related to statements Kavanaugh made during his Senate confirmation hearings, were initially filed with the federal appeals court in Washington, where Kavanaugh served for the last 12 years before his confirmation Saturday to the Supreme Court.
The allegations center on whether Kavanaugh was dishonest and lacked judicial temperament during his Senate testimony, according to people familiar with the matter.
Last month, a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit asked Roberts to refer the complaints to another appeals court for review after determining that they should not be handled by judges who served with Kavanaugh on the D.C. appellate court.
In a letter Wednesday to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit, Roberts said he selected the court in Colorado to “accept the transfer and to exercise the powers of a judicial council with respect to the identified complaints and any pending or new complaints relating to the same subject matter.”
[D.C. Circuit sent complaints about Kavanaugh’s testimony to Chief Justice Roberts]
The Denver-based appeals court is led by Chief Judge Timothy M. Tymkovich, the former solicitor general of Colorado who was nominated to the bench by President George W. Bush. The 10th Circuit handled another recent judicial misconduct case from Washington involving the former chief judge of the District Court.
It is unclear what will come of the review by the 10th Circuit. The judiciary’s rules on misconduct do not apply to Supreme Court justices, and the 10th Circuit could decide to dismiss the complaints as moot now that Kavanaugh has joined the high court.
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And do we pay the bill for their hissy fits?
Anyone know if the other eight Justices can expel a member for real,or imagined,misconduct or illegal conduct?
I’m no legal Scholar but I think he did a good thing
initiated a Congressional investigation
fail to turn over public records
Have any business they own investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).
like the Obama administration did to True the Vote
These are complaints based on committee hearing testimony. Nonsense at best.
Yes and a total ROTTER!
Kavanaugh had been in the Bush inner circle. This will be a very friendly court.
Nope. Only one way to remove - impeach and conviction by 2/3 in the Senate.
Democrat political assault through the federal courts.
And these are the folks who complain about politicization and partisanship. LOL
The crap is never going to stop
The WashingCIA Post never sleeps in it’s effort to subvert America.
I’m old enough to remember when the CIA was on our side.
What the H...
I’m confident these complaints all stem from sore loser jealousy. Those of the left, who criticize BK’s anger over the smear campaign they perpetrated against him remind me of the proverbial mob who dumped feces on a person, rolled him in it, and then ridiculed and belittled him for smelling badly.
I agree but these complaints will go nowhere.
Only way to remove a sitting federal judge is through impeachment.
Will never happen.
They never quit, and they need a lesson on the proper answer to “who is the President and what are his powers”.... I wish God would take the evil partakers of this trash and end it. This man, Justice Kavanaugh had to enter their elite snob sancuary... too good for the likes of 6 of them.. and go through more of the left’s attacks.
I fully believe Kavanaugh is innocent and they continue to pile on with dirt and lies like nothing I have ever seen before.
An innocent man, made to be guilty, BECAUSE he is a Trump appointee... and a conservative. That is his only sin!
To do to him... to continue to crucify him... to spread lies to the empty suits out there.. while your sin is you are guilty of murder. You take a baby, who has no defense.. the most innocent of all mankind, and you kill that baby in unbelievable ways. and sell the human parts to buy your new car.
How can God look on such horror... there will be judgment... but today... it goes on.
Just more monkey’s in the zoo throwing $#!+.
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