the most powerful judge in the world!

 

"Congress has surely not made us the most powerful judges in the world so we can bestow thousands of dollars of bounties on our personal favorites Whenever we "feel" like it,"~Alex Kozinski

 

"But there is an important principle at stake here: whether we who administer the law will treat ordinary mortals with the candor and respect they deserve as human beings." ~Alex Kozinski

After Los Angeles U.S. District Judge Manuel Real was accused of improperly interfering in a bankruptcy case to protect a probationer he was supervising, Schroeder at first dismissed the complaint without appointing a special committee to investigate. A divided 9th Circuit Judicial Council eventually confirmed her decision not to discipline Real, but Kozinski issued a bitter dissent.

"Congress has surely not made us the most powerful judges in the world so we can bestow thousands of dollars of bounties on our personal favorites whenever we feel like it," Kozinski wrote at the time.

 

Crank up the Wayback Machine. Let's go back to 2005.

 

The Wizard Of Oz!

"His "personal" Web site was stored on a "home" server." ~Cathy Catterson, circuit executive for the 9th Circuit

 

A.K.A. A THE CASE OF ANOTHER LIE TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. THE COMPUTER IN QUESTION WAS ON HIS "OFFICE COMPUTER" IN HIS HOME OFFICE.

 

Such raw, naked power shows that Kozinski and Mart are not to be considered mere "ordinary mortals"

 

But Cathy Catterson, circuit executive for the 9th Circuit, told The Associated Press that the material on Kozinski's personal Web site was stored on a home server that was accessible to family members. Kozinski told the Times that he did not maintain the site on his work [office] computer.

"Most of it was jokes," Catterson said, adding that she had not personally seen the material.

According to the Times, the racy images could only be seen by viewers who knew to type in a subdirectory address on the Web site.

"The contents are a private matter. It was not meant to be accessible by others," Catterson said.

"He would have been more careful of the contents had he known what was on it." ~Cathy Catterson, circuit executive for the 9th Circuit

Catterson said that after the story broke, the judge's son called Kozinski to say he had been responsible for uploading some of the material onto the computer. However, she could not say how much or what material was involved.

The Times reported that Kozinski said he must have accidentally uploaded the images to his server while trying to upload something else. He also said he would delete some material including pictures of women painted to look like cows, which he called "degrading," the Times said.

Kozinski said he began saving the sexually explicit material and other items of interest years ago, the Times said.

"People transmit stuff like this all the time," he said.

All the time?