For 20 years, I’ve felt it was too early to speak up about Judge Kozinski. Now I fear it’s too late.

Dahlia Lithwick just published a powerful article about Judge Kozinski. "He Made Us All Victims and Accomplices: For 20 years, I’ve felt it was too early to speak up about Judge Alex Kozinski. Now I fear it’s too late." Better late than never! Let's all hold Judge Kozinski accountable now. 3,000 people, and counting, have signed asking Congress to impeach Kozinski. Please share widely with your friends and family. We can do this! The time is now! Thank you! _______________________________________________________________________ By Dahlia Lithwick "The first time I met Alex Kozinski was in 1996. I was clerking for the chief judge of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, and there was an orientation for new clerks in San Francisco. One of my co-clerks and I were introduced to the already legendary, lifetime-tenured young judge at a reception, and we talked for a while. I cannot recall what we talked about. I remember only feeling quite small and very dirty. Without my prompting, my former co-clerk described this interaction in an email to me this week. “He completely ignored me and appeared to be undressing you with his eyes,” he wrote. “I had never seen anyone ogle another person like that and still have not seen anything like it. Was so uncomfortable to watch, and I wasn’t even the subject of the stare.” The first time I spoke to Judge Kozinski on the phone came weeks later, when I called his chambers late at night. Our judge had a sitting in the same city as Judge Kozinski, and I had made plans with one of Kozinski’s then-clerks, an old college friend, to meet late at night for a drink. When I called his chambers, Judge Kozinski himself answered the phone. I introduced myself and asked to speak to his clerk, explaining that we had plans to meet up. The judge asked where I was. I said I was in my hotel room. Then he said, “What are you wearing?” I was taken aback, in part because nobody talked this way in real life. I surprised myself by reporting what Kozinski had said to my judge, who had always been kind and courtly and old-fashioned to the point of being almost saintly in my eyes. He looked horrified, as I am sure he was. But it was 1996. And the relationships between law clerks and their judges are mostly built on worshipful silence. There is no other work relationship left in America that is comparable. Which is, as it happens, part of the problem." Please go to the http link to keep reading. The picture is by Natalie Matthews-Ramo.