Judge Alex Kozinski's Website
The Patterico Pontifications Blog has a post today about Judge Alex Kozinski, the Chief Judge for the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. Judge Kozinski has been a prolific and relatively public conservative judge. I remember thinking it was pretty cool when I heard that he closed one important opinion with the line: "The parties are advised to chill."
Anyway, apparently Judge Kozinski had gone Eliot Spitzer on us. He has website filled with a lot of pornographic images, photos of transsexuals, naked women on all fours painted to look like cows, people fooling around with barn yard animals, and lots of other images that I really don’t feel like describing. Let’s just say the guy is twisted and leave it at that.
To this, I say creepy but who really cares? But he also had a picture on his website of what looks like a child giving oral sex to a priest. The Patterico Pontifications Blog provides a picture that I would have done just fine without seeing.
How many different ways is this sick and twisted? As a father of three children and a Catholic, it would be really hard to come up with a more offensive image.
No one is going to impeach him but should this guy really be a chief judge of a federal circuit court? If I get a vote, I vote no.
To read Judge Kozinski's wife's defense of his website, click here.
Comments
The problem is that our judges are unaccountable for their actions -- both on or off the bench. Consider the unassailable example of Chief Judge Edward W. "Two Hookers" Nottingham, of the District of Colorado: http://www.knowyourcourts.com/Nottingham/Nottingham.htm.
A functional legal system can only exist where all participants are fully accountable for their actions.
Posted by: Robin Hood | June 13, 2008 7:57 AM
I love "legal" porn of all kinds, hardcore and soft. Does that make me a bad person? I guess it would be in your book. I am also an atheist. I will burn in hell.
Posted by: Anonymous | June 14, 2008 2:13 AM
Ron,
I followed a link here to a disparaging remark about me being "a bad seed". That ain't true.
I will say that the stuff Patterico posted was on the lesser end of offensiveness.
I'm happy to answer any questions you might have. You can contact me through your calbar.org website.
Posted by: Cyrus Sanai | June 14, 2008 2:46 PM
To Cyrus: Okay, that was probably a rush to judgment. My real point was we should not attack the accuser who is just a random lawyer - no offense, just like me - and focus on the conduct of a 9th Circuit judge.
Anonymous, I'm not sure what you can expect in the afterlife but I'm rooting for you just like the rest of us. With respect to your great love of porn, let me just say I'm a little concerned you felt compelled to put the word "legal" in quotes.
Posted by: Ron Miller | June 16, 2008 8:59 AM