NEW: Justice Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed to #SCOTUS, but the ethics complaints filed against him haven't gone away — per letter just made public, Chief Justice John Roberts is transferring them to the 10th Circuit buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil… 
What happens now? Judicial ethics experts have said they expect the complaints against Kavanaugh ultimately to be dismissed — the misconduct review process that applies to lower court judges doesn't cover justices, and #SCOTUS doesn't have its own system buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
Notably, the 10th Circuit is where Roberts sent an ethics complaint against former DC federal district chief judge Richard Roberts, re: decades-old allegation pre-dating his time as a judge that he sexually abused a teenage witness in a case he prosecuted buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
The 10th Circuit dismissed that case, finding that conduct pre-dating a judge's time on the bench fell outside the purview of the judiciary's discipline system. Here's our previous story on that: buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
A key distinction here: Of the Kavanaugh complaints we've seen (some have been made public or provided to BuzzFeed), they're about Kavanaugh's *response now* to the decades-old sexual misconduct claims, not the allegations themselves buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
