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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Justice Roberts referred the cases to Colorado? Only thing I know about Colorado is they picked on Masterpiece Cake Shop over a same-sex mirage cake.
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compromised
If you are going to say something so aggressively enlightening ... get it right.
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Oh no! Not that!
:-)
What a bunch of dirty rotten scoundrels! Democrats are just about the lowest life forms on the planet!
They could still try to threaten his children’s American citizenship based on the “supposed fact” that they were brought here fraudulently.
False accusations are a favorite tool of the leftist.
JoMa
The excerpt does not say who filed the complaints. Who was it? A George Soros front group or a Hussein front group?
Nope - shunting them off to gather dust and wither away.
No. Only impeachment by 2/3 of the Senate.
“This crap is never going to stop.”
Anyway, this is better in the short term, as they keep their essential indecency front and center.
Exercise in futility!
Don't know about that. But, they could certainly file a complaint for poor work ethic for sleeping on the job! (Ruth Buzzie Ginsberg)
Didnt Thomas attend seminary for a while?
The kids were born of Irish birthmothers, but were born in latin or south america.they started trying to bring this up during Roberts own confirmation process.
The complaints will be summarily dismissed as without merit.
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Thank you for posting. It’s just pathetic slander about CJ Roberts.
It is the doing of the DemocRATS.
Hey, DACA.
Loves his Maca
Hates his Daca
Deblaso’s full of
Bull kakkaa!
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