The New Supreme Court By Hank Silverberg Brett Kavanaugh is now a Supreme Court Justice. He was sworn in just a few hours after the Senate gave final approval to his nomination. The media continued to focus on what Maine Senator Susan Collins said, or how Democratic Senator Joe Manchin from West Virginia bucked his party and voted in favor of Kavanaugh, or how big of a success the appointment was for Donald Trump. Only a few news organizations, including The Washington Post , reported that the D.C. Appeals court clerk forwarded more than a dozen complaints of “judicial misconduct” against Kavanaugh in recent weeks to Chief Justice John Roberts. Roberts chose not to forward them to a judicial panel for an investigation. (Not surprising, since it was Kavanaugh, as a lawyer in George W. (Chief Justice John Roberts, SCOTUS photo) Bush’s White House, who recommended Roberts for the high court in 2005. Mr. Bush writes about the recommendation in his book.) ...