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?
So?
He’s holding a plate of food - and that means he’s gay?
Just pathetic.
Yeah, I lost it with the Obamacare vote.
It was, and is, NOT a tax.
It’s a damn bill.
What a bunch of purely subjective hogwash.
I honestly don’t think that the left thinks they can get traction on any of these complaints, but they do intend to delegitimize Kav as a SC justice by tarnishing his name.
Kagan incessantly bashed the military and unconstitutionally banned ROTC programs from campus.
If anything is impeachable, that is.
OMG!!! I’m GAY!!!!
Frivolous, vexatious and really, really stupid. It’s a travesty that it wasn’t summarily dismissed. I hope Colorado makes them pay.
Leftist Losers not taking it well. Time for more pu$$y hats. Make Them Pay!
These POS leftist’s also try to delegitimize George Washington. Ef em.
“No information on the identity of complainants.”
Democrats.
Roberts is a slob. He is now the new Justice Kennedy. With the last court it was 4-4 with Kennedy the one you had to win in arguments. Now this bum Roberts will be the one you have to win over. Remember, and never forget, it was ROBERTS who carried the day for Obama with Obamacare. Had he went with the conservatives as we thought he was when he was nominated, Obamacare would have gone down in flames. No, Roberts saved Obama’s ass that day. Now this slob is the one we have to win over. AND, you will NEVER KNOW how he will vote or for which side he will vote with. Just one man’s pissed off opinion when it comes to the Chief Slob Roberts.
Agreed. Roberts sat on the complaints until the circus in Washington, D.C. was over. But he couldn’t personally bury the complaints, since then he’d be accused of a cover-up. So instead he followed procedure and punted it to a neutral circuit court. In all likelihood that circuit court will review the complaints and decide there’s no validity to them and dismiss them all. And that will be that.
I can’t wait until Roberts and his vote is irrelevant.
Why weren’t these complaints sent to the 9th circuit Court of Appeals, like they should have been? ( Sarc.)
Hey...Ruthie won’t last thru the winter. Trump brings on the next great conservative Justice! Winning!
He was given the complaints way before the senate vote. He sat on them.
Someone outed it publicly the day of the vote that he has complaints he didn’t do anything with. I think. And I think THAT’S when he moved on it.
Rock and a hard place I’m afraid.
Not everything is deep state.
But I do think Roberts was blackmailed by obama
I read that anyone can file.
Interesting. Tymkovich sounds conservative.
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