Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh won't face discipline over Senate confrontation

[Kilgore]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/08/01/brett-kavanaugh-panel-clears-supreme-court-justice-misconduct/1890673001/

WASHINGTON – Supreme Court Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh cannot be disciplined for his behavior during last year's Senate confirmation battle, a federal judicial panel ruled Thursday.

The decision by the Committee on Judicial Conduct and Disability of the Judicial Conference of the United States agreed with a panel of federal judges that Kavanaugh's elevation to the Supreme Court put him out of their jurisdiction.

"Our committee, judicial councils, and chief circuit judges all lack statutory authority to review the merits of complaints against an individual no longer covered under the (Judicial Conduct and Disability) Act," the panel said. "As a Supreme Court justice, Justice Kavanaugh is not a judge subject to the Act."

The action followed last December's dismissal of 83 ethics complaints against Kavanaugh by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit, which had been asked to conduct an investigation. The complaints alleged that he violated the code of conduct for federal judges in part by "making inappropriately partisan statements and behaving in a demonstrably hostile manner during the hearings" last year, as well as in 2004 and 2006 for a federal appeals court seat.

[catrose]

1. Maybe the 2004 & 2006 complaints should have been heard earlier?

And now he's beyond anyone telling him to do anything. Speechless, but crying.