Kavanaugh Complaints Dismissed With Further Appeals Possible (2)

An eight-member panel of judges once again dismissed the judicial misconduct complaints against U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, but a dissenting opinion may have left open a window for further appeals.

The same panel originally dismissed the complaints in December, saying they no longer had the authority to review Kavanaugh’s conduct because he’d been elevated to the Supreme Court. This latest decision comes after several groups asked the judges to reconsider.

The panel once again confirmed that the Judicial Conduct and Disability Act, the federal law establishing a process for filing judicial misconduct complaints, only covers lower court ...