All 83 ethics complaints against Brett Kavanaugh dismissed
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Ethics complaints against Kavanaugh dismissed because they don't apply to Supreme Court justices
BY LYDIA WHEELER AND BRETT SAMUELS - 12/18/18 04:07 PM EST
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A full panel of appeals court judges in Colorado on Tuesday dismissed the complaints of judicial misconduct that were filed earlier this year against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh following his confirmation hearings.

An eight-judge panel on the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the 83 complaints that were filed in the D.C. Circuit and Colorado-based 10th Circuit Court of Appeals raised “serious” allegations, but said Kavanaugh can't be penalized.

The complaints together allege Kavanaugh violated the code of conduct for federal judges, but the court said since he has now been elevated to the Supreme Court the Judicial Conduct and Disability Act no longer applies to him.

The law only covers circuit, district, bankruptcy and magistrate judges.

“Neither the act nor the rules apply to justices of the United States Supreme Court,” Chief Circuit Judge Timothy Tymkovich, a George W. Bush appointee, wrote in the court’s 10-page ruling.