Kavanaugh Misconduct Complaint Saga Could Be Over (1)

The judiciary doesn’t have authority to review misconduct complaints against U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh stemming from his Senate confirmation testimony last year, a panel of judges said Aug. 1.

The order by the Committee on Judicial Conduct and Disability of the Judicial Conference of the United States could be the end of the misconduct controversy as the decision upheld the conclusion of a special panel of judges from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.

The latest decision concluded that the judiciary can’t review misconduct complaints against justices even if they weren’t yet on the Supreme ...