Impeach Kavanaugh

On Friday, the Tenth Circuit denied appeals over its decision to boot 83 ethics complaints filed against Brett Kavanaugh. The court had previously held that the complaints had to be dismissed, because it had no authority to hold a sitting Supreme Court justice accountable. The Tenth Circuit upheld that theory.

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It is important to emphasize that the Tenth made no ruling on the merits of the complaints. Most of the complaints stem from Kavanaugh’s repeated lying during his old confirmation testimony in 2004 and 2006. The Circuit court did not exonerate Kavanaugh, nor did it determine that he shouldn’t be punished for lying. It simply said that it does not have the authority to hold him accountable, given that he has now been elevated to the Supreme Court.

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Chief Justice John Roberts might be toying with the idea of instituting a code of conduct for Supreme Court justices, but as of now, no such code exists.

  Above the Law

A miscarriage of justice if there ever was one. He should have been ineligible to sit on the Supreme Court until those complaints were addressed and cleared.

No body [has] the Constitutional authority to hold a sitting Supreme Court justice accountable for perjury.

Except for the United State Congress, through the mechanism of impeachment.

Impeachment and removal of a Supreme Court justice works just like if does for a president or for any federal official. The “impeachment” charges are brought in the House, through a simple majority vote. The trial is conducted in the Senate where there needs to be a 2/3rds majority for conviction and removal from office.

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Impeachment charges are now the ONLY WAY to have a real “investigation” into Kavanaugh’s misdeeds.

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Given the current make-up of Congress, Democrats in the House can start he ball rolling on their own steam, without support from Republicans. [...] Regardless of where you stand on the attempted rape allegations against Kavanaugh, that he lied under oath is, or should be, a devastating charge on its own.

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Impeachment of Brett Kavanaugh is now the JOB of Congress. It’s not a political tactic, it is a Constitutional requirement of their office.

Unless lying under oath just doesn’t matter to Congress. In which case, like, why is Michael Cohen going to jail? Why does Michael Cohen get three-and-a-half years for lying to Congress while Brett Kavanaugh gets to be on the Supreme Court for the rest of his life?

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.