Brett Kavanaugh Slapped With Two Official Ethics Complaints in Merrick Garland's Jurisdiction

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Brett Kavanaugh Slapped With Two Official Ethics Complaints in Merrick Garland’s Jurisdiction
by Colin Kalmbacher | 11:27 am, October 2nd, 2018


Two ethics complaints have been filed against Brett Kavanaugh in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit Court on which he sits. As of this writing, those two complaints are being administered by the circuit court’s chief judge and previously defeated Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland.

Kavanaugh is likely to face ethical questions despite the disposition of those two official complaints due to his partisan attacks against Democrats, “the Clintons” and other liberal groups when he alleged a vast, left-wing conspiracy against him during testimony in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee last week.

According to Buzzfeed News’ Zoe Tillman, one of those official complaints concerns an allegation that Kavanaugh “lied about the sexual assault allegations against him.”

Filed on September 27, the sexual assault complaint predates Kavanaugh’s recent testimony during his re-hearing to address the allegations leveled against him by Dr. Christine Blasey Ford. This complaint does, however, contain specific allegations of perjury against Kavanaugh due to his written statements provided while to the Senate while under oath. The 12-page filing notes, in relevant part:

In written testimony submitted to the Senate Judiciary Committee on September 26, 2018, while Kavanaugh remained under oath he, state: “the truth is that I have never sexually assaulted anyone–not in high school, not in college, not ever.”…In his written testimony, he characterized the reports of sexual abuse made by Ramirez and Switnick [sic] as “smears, pure and simple.” He went on to claim that their reports of sexual abuse were “grotesque and obvious character assassination.” Kavanaugh demonstrated his lack of fitness to be a judge by falsely attacking the witnesses against him in this manner.

The other complaint deals with allegations that Kavanaugh lied before the Senate Judiciary Committee when he testified during his initial confirmation hearing that he didn’t know he received and worked off of a treasure trove of documents stolen by a GOP operative from Senate Democrats during his time with the administration of George W. Bush.

The 11-page filing notes, in relevant part:

In 2002, Manuel Miranda, a Republican staff member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, stole thousands of documents belonging to committee Democrats…In testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee on September 5, 2018 and September 6, 2018 related to his confirmation to the Supreme Court of the United States, Kavanaugh falsely testified under oath that he had no knowledge that Miranda had infiltrated Democratic files, concealed the fact that he knowingly received and read information about the stolen documents and concealed his prior false testimony to the Senate in 2004 and 2006. The July 28, 2002 email from Miranda to Kavanaugh and other emails recently released to the public establish that Kavanaugh gave false testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee…

Both the sexual assault-themed complaint and the stolen documents-themed complaint base their objections to Kavanaugh on the Judicial Conduct and Disability Act (JCDA) and the Judicial Conference of the United States’ Rules for Judicial-Conduct and Judicial-Disability, essentially various standards of professional behavior codified in federal law and by which all U.S. judges are expected to abide or face censure, impeachment and/or removal from the bench.

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[cilla4progress]

1. Karma

[former9thward]

24. We were told it was "karma" two weeks ago when this same group

filed a similar complaint in the same place. What happened with that one?

[john657]

27. It's truly amazing how many here fall for this shit. n/t

[hatrack]

2. Fascinating . . . .

.

[Stuart G]

3. I think that this is it for Kav..."Been fun while it lasted"

The end is near...Kav...
Have a beer..

[Maraya1969]

6. I think you are right. It's the end of the line for him. And I don't know if the GOP

can nominate some other slimy judge to try and confirm before the midterms and after that, well.....I don't know.

[iluvtennis]

8. Agree with you. BUT per crying, sniffling KV, he is entitled to be on SCOTUS

[ancianita]

9. Then can nominate, but hearing couldn't take place for weeks, so no new nominee will be

voted on before the midterms.

I watched a senator on Chris Hayes explained that recently.

[grantcart]

11. After the midterms but before the end of term

[Maraya1969]

19. Any of those Rethugs in danger of losing their seats? Or maybe if the others lose in such

a bad way they might not be as ballsy as they are now.

[Perseus]

23. Never underestimate crooked republicans

They have the power and they are going to do with it whatever they want. I would like to think "this is it for kavinaugh", but recent history has shown that somehow these crooks get to move their agenda forward.

I hope everyone who is predicting the final fall of kavanaugh is right.

Just one question...how did this crook, lying SOB, raper ended as a judge?

[pazzyanne]

26. From what I read, it was a long uphill all the way.

He had a lot of "help" along the way. Think Federalist Society, and he has had a lot of help from the conservative right to pull him through scrapes when they happened. He is a privileged elite from day one. tRumps minion who hate the elite, seem to be fine with conservative elitists.

[charliea]

30. I agree with you

Never think there is bottom to their perfidy, as much as I hope that arrogant little man never sits on our Supreme Court, I think the odds are good that he will.

Does anyone really think that Flake, Murkowski, or Collins(!) would vote against the Party (tRump)?

He got where he is by being a connected Republican, like John Yoo.

[triron]

12. Seems I've heard this before.

I ardently hope you are right but afraid you are not. The repuke's corruption knows no limits.

[HuskyOffset]

13. Perhaps he is like Icarus

He flew to high, now he's straight boned. Long way down, you rapey bastard. Splat.

[Liberty Belle]

4. Garland was not "defeated." The Repubs never allowed him to come up for a vote.

And made clear they would not allow a vote on ANY Obama nominee -- it had nothing to do with Garland's qualifications.

[dhill926]

15. I know....

this shit drives me nuts....

[AZ8theist]

16. who wrote that fucking article..??

Garland was never "defeated".. pure BS

[Maraya1969]

20. Maybe Schumer can convince Trump that nominating Garland would do wonders for his

approval rating. Which it might.

[lagomorph777]

29. +1. "Ignored with corrupt intent" is more accurate than "defeated."

[calimary]

33. Correct. He never even got preliminary meetings.

I WISH TO GOD this really could be karma, really could be the end for the Frat Brat, as is being expressed farther upthread. But I fear he’s gonna be ramrodded into SCOTUS anyway.

So if and when we get the House back, impeaching the SOB should be Priority One. A Democratic House of Reps could do it and put that black mark into the history books beside Kavanaugh’s name. Doubtful the Senate would concur. It’s a mighty high bar to convict and then remove.

As we saw, that’s how it played out with President Bill Clinton. He WASN’T convicted in the Senate but he sure as hell was impeached in the GOP-controlled House of Reps. And that record now stands, for all of history. He’ll always be the 20th century president who was impeached. Even though he survived the trial in the Senate - ironically enough, prosecuted by GOP House members supposedly decrying sexual offenses against a young woman (in that case, NO 15-year-old victim who was a straight out NON-consenting minor assaulted against her will, but a 23 or 24-year-old CONSENTING ADULT).

And Bill Clinton had to pay for that. He had to pay for that, bigtime. It’s on his ledger for all of history. He was formally disbarred. He AND his family were subject to MASSIVE and years-long accusations and degradation and public humiliation as Ken Starr and his flying monkeys (Kavanaugh chief among them) crawled through everything about both Bill’s and Hillary’s backgrounds and personal lives, through multiple “scandals” and whispering campaigns and wild-ass conspiracies and rumors of every sort. There were “-gates” of all kinds. Travelgate. Filegate. Whitewatergate. That last one so nicknamed, I suspect, to reflect the desperate wishes and frustrated ambitions of the GOP to achieve payback for Nixon. And more.

All of the above - turning up NOTHING despite all that time, taxpayers’ millions, and operatives of every stripe (Kavanaugh among them), fanning out across the country repeatedly, trying to dig up Something-ANYTHING that’d stick. They found a single stained blue dress and rode it straight into the impeachment winner’s circle. And let’s remember, the owner of said stained blue dress was a consenting adult, over 21, AT THE TIME.

These bastards now see no reason why their little miscreant unapologetic frat boy should have to pay for anything. (Hmmm reminds me of something the already-abused and soon-to-be murder victim Nicole Brown Simpson said about her ex-husband, O. J. Simpson: that he’d get away with brutalizing her, and worse, because his star status meant he never had to pay for anything) Even attempted gang rape, which is basically what that fun little “drinking game” called the “Devil’s Triangle” actually IS.

It’s STILL a sin on your soul, Mr. I-went-to-Little-Flower-church-all-the-time. You’re gonna pay for it eventually, one way or the other, dude. Any Catholic knows (or should know) that.

[northoftheborder]

5. He deserves this....good news

[Scurrilous]

7. K&R

[BigmanPigman]

10. Who filed the complaints?

Never mind, I read to the end of the article and found out who did it...

"The two extant ethics complaints against Kavanaugh were filed by the Democratic Coalition, a Super PAC led by Democratic Party fixture Scott Dworkin and previously profiled by Law&Crime here".

[Farmergene]

14. Truely,

All chickens come home to roost!

[bucolic_frolic]

17. If Kavanaugh were a corporation

he'd be preparing a pre-packaged bankruptcy

I think his eventual impeachment is almost baked in the cake at this point

[lindysalsagal]

18. It's a stinking dead carp, and every day it smells more.

So. Much. Winning.

[Mr. Ected]

21. This will only make it hurt all the worse

When the GOP plugs its ears, pinches its nose, closes its eyes, and installs this mega-cretin as a Supreme Court justice.

They. don't. care.

And the base will cheer and clap and parade around their "Gotcha Libtards" moment. To them, the scent of that 'victory' obliterates the stench of their actions.

Color me jaded.

[BadgerMom]

22. Defeated? Was there one hearing? One vote?

I got as far as that descriptor and steam came out my ears. Now I’ll try reading further.

[Julian Englis]

25. Bill Clinton lost his Arkansas law license for less.

Will Maryland go after KKKavanaugh’s?

[FakeNoose]

28. Just sayin'

[onit2day]

32. Well said.

[onit2day]

31. Senate republicons don't care and will continue to ignore any negative info on KAV

Now we will see if there are any senate republicons with an ounce of integrity or morality.