Posted on 12/18/2017 7:06:20 AM PST by 11th_VA
Alex Kozinski, the powerful judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit who was facing a judicial investigation over allegations that he subjected 15 women to inappropriate sexual behavior, announced Monday that he would retire effective immediately.
In a statement provided by his lawyer, Kozinski apologized, saying that he had a broad sense of humor and a candid way of speaking to both male and female law clerks alike, and that in doing so, I may not have been mindful enough of the special challenges and pressures that women face in the workplace.
It grieves me to learn that I caused any of my clerks to feel uncomfortable; this was never my intent, he said.
Kozinski, 67, said although family and friends had urged him to stay on, at least long enough to defend myself, he cannot be an effective judge and simultaneously fight this battle.
Nor would such a battle be good for my beloved federal judiciary. And so I am making the decision to retire, effective immediately, he said.
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“There is nothing good in the 9th Circus.”
this Reagan appointee was a GOOD one.
What’s sauce for the liberal goose is sauce for the liberal gander.
With his poisonous ideology afflicting us all over the years, he ought to at least be held to the strictest of leftist standards on this issue!
“Kozinski is first rate.”
I second that.
First Rate.
You have to feel sorry about any conservative judge that gets appointed to the 9th circuit. I imagine the bulling from the other 8 would be intolerable.
Wouldn’t THAT cause a serious California Quake!!??!! LOL!
Dude....it is the 9th circuit.....was thatva rhetorical question?
(You know I am pulling your chain here right?)
Robart next please Santa
In the 9th Circus? I’m shocked. Shocked.
I met a retired federal judge on a vacation - and she let everybody know it, too. Quite full of herself. Maybe I would be too, with a pension like that!
“Trump gets a 9th Circuit appointment now - WINNING !!! “
He already has three others. This makes FOUR!
He was no sort of judge at all. He was a hack.
I wore those robes for a reason. So nobody should feel uncomfortable viewing my boner.
Robart next please Santa.
Yes,please! It would likely be boys with Robart, even though he is married to a woman.
Trump should appoint a conservative even more candid, seriously if you can’t treat words as mere words you don’t belong in the work force.
Work is not a place where your ‘special’ challenges is an excuse it’s a place where you have to get things done even if the people you work with are disagreeable.
This is particularly true of the Court system where one might have expected to be working with the scum of the earth and it’s not always just the people on trial.
Arrogant lawers and lawless judges too, no better example than the 9th circuit.
Put your big girl panties on and learn to deal with it.
No if memory serves there were three that weren’t hopelessly libtard. they just always got out voted.
this was an obamacide.
Ha! I was referring to resignation/retirement not scandal
Who do you think appointed him?
It was Ronald Reagan.
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