This judge is a twice-nominated Reagan appointment.
So what? You don’t think there isn’t going to be Carter, Clinton & Obama male judges hitting on their female clerks?
More to the point is the guy was disciplined 10 years ago for leaking his private porn onto the internet. Anyone who deals with Court of Appeals judges knows that is just plain weird for these guys. The federal courts of appeals should be one of the first places weird behavior is not tolerated. He should have retired then.
That last sentence was one of the worst apologies I’ve ever heard.
“I treat all of my employees as family…”
That’s the root of your problem!
It might be OK to share porn with your family, but it’s not OK to share it with your subordinates.
Why not expose them all? Let the chips fall where they may. Every time we ignore evil and wrong doing for political expedience or strike a plea deal for legal expedience, it hurts the credibility of the system.
I said it before. I’ll say it again. There’s a big compulsive element in this behavior.
Anthony Weiner is a prime example. It destroyed his life and career and marriage. Pathetic.
And, in some of our subcultures, men see nothing wrong in what the rest of us call sexual harassment. The term was coined in 1968 by lawyer and scholar Catherine MacKinnon.
That makes it a very modern concept.
Now don’t flame me for “excusing” this behavior. I’m just repeating what almost any shrink would :confirm: These are men --and some women – who never learned basic impulse control during the adolescent phase of socialization.
“I treat all of my female employees like President Trump treats his daughter”. That sounds more like his line of thinking.
I would never intentionally do anything to offend anyone and it is regrettable that a handful have been offended by something I may have said or done.
That’s your core template for a fauxpology right there; depersonalized, aggressive and without a shred of remorse.
This Judge needs to retire or be retired immediately; long overdue either way.
That’s because it’s not actually an apology.
Now we’re really headed into Monty Python territory. “The accused [Judge Kilbraken], m’lud, sentenced her to be taken from this place and brought round to his place… The accused then commented on Miss Thang’s bodily structure, made several not-at-all legal remarks on the subject of fun and then placed his robes over his head and began to emit low moans.”
That line nearly made me hurl.
This unending parade of incidents of sexual harassment disturb me and, as a male, leave me feeling some guilt by association. I really need Justice Roberts to reassure me that gender-based discrimination has largely disappeared and will completely vanish soon if the government would stop paying any attention to gender.
Huh. Reagan appointee. But you know, I’m so jaded over all of this at this point that I can imagine a wild deluge of accusations against judges as part of the GOP’s plans to pack the courts with people who will approve things like “my bigotry and discrimination are expressions of my religious freedom” and “gerrymandering so that GOP voters’ votes count as numerous liberal votes each is totally fine” and “it’s not voter suppression because this is supposed to be a white people country.”
A porn addiction is one thing. Pressuring one’s staff to watch it w you is quite another.
I assume you meant “guilt”. Not me. I know who I am. I won’t bend over for this and neither will a lot of good men out there who don’t deserve guilt by association.
I don’t know about all of you, but I also regularly watch porn with my family. One big family, sitting around the porn tube. Clearly nothing to see here, except regular old family style porn watching.
That’s a terribly unfortunate result of having abandoned due process and good faith efforts for corroboration. And I take it very seriously because that’s exactly how we lose trust in the system (and each other).
(A day after, and I’m still struggling to cope with it…)
Sounds like SCOTUS material.
That guy, that photo reminds me of that guy, it’s on the tip of my tongue… ahhhh.
ETA: Got it now. Carl Paladino. Looks alike doesn’t he? 