Roberts refers judicial misconduct complaints against Kavanaugh to federal appeals court in Colorad
Roberts refers judicial misconduct complaints against Kavanaugh to federal appeals court in Colorado
By Ann E. Marimow and Tom Hamburger
October 10 at 4:36 PM
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.
A judge on the federal appeals court in Washington had asked Roberts to refer the filings to another appeals court for review after determining that they should not be handled by Kavanaugh’s fellow judges at the time on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
In a letter Wednesday to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit, Roberts said he had 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.”
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“There is nothing that a judicial council could do at this point,” said Arthur D. Hellman, a law professor at the University of Pittsburgh and expert on the operation of federal courts.
The 10th Circuit will likely close the case “because it is no longer within their jurisdiction,” now that Kavanaugh has been elevated to the Supreme Court, he added.
