The complaint is linked to here. The story about Justice Breyer’s response is here. An excerpt:
A justice of the Supreme Court yesterday rebuffed a call by members of Congress for an investigation of a federal judge’s statement last month that President Bush came to power in a similar way to dictators such as Hitler and Mussolini.
Justice Breyer said a committee he chairs that studies the enforcement of judicial-conduct rules is not the appropriate forum to hear the complaint against Judge Guido Calabresi of the Manhattan-based 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals.
“The committee has no authority — statutory or administrative — to investigate particular allegations of misconduct and impose sanctions,” Justice Breyer wrote in a letter to Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas. . . .
Justice Breyer’s response, which was released by the high court yesterday, points out that the established procedure for filing a complaint against a federal judge is to write to the clerk of the appropriate appeals court. . . .
Also, an amusing tidbit: “In their correspondence, neither Justice Breyer nor the lawmakers mentioned the identity of the keynote speaker at the American Constitution Society’s gathering. It was Justice Breyer.”
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