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Sanai told the committee leadership that there are persons who work for, or who have worked for, the federal judiciary who have important stories to tell about disgraced former Chief Judge Alex Kozinski, and his mentee, current United States Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. I know that there are people who wish to speak out but fear retaliation because I have been contacted by more than a half-dozen such persons since Judge Kozinski resigned in disgrace.
Sanai is the California attorney who blew the whistle on Kozinski years before a series of articles in the Washington Post in December finally brought about the resignation of the former chief judge of the 9th Circuit Court over sexual harassment revelations. Sanai has long challenged the judiciary, and was deemed a vexatious litigant by one trial court, a ruling that was overturned on appeal.
Since Kozinskis resignation, questions have been raised about what Kavanaugh knew or did about such behavior, given the close relationship between the two. Kavanaugh clerked for Kozinski in the 1990s, a post that led directly to his clerkship with Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, who recommended Kavanaugh to President Donald Trump as his replacement. Kozinski and Kavanaugh remained close and both vetted prospective clerks for Kennedy.
Kozinskis son recently clerked for Kavanaugh.
More: https://theintercept.com/2018/09/17/cyrus-sanai-federal-court-employees-attempted-to-come-forward-to-chuck-grassley-and-dianne-feinstein-neither-responded/
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)dlk
(11,576 posts)eleny
(46,166 posts)bdamomma
(63,922 posts)come forward and speak the truth, you can write a book afterwards. We have a country to save.
Claritie Pixie
(2,199 posts)Kavanaugh didnt suddenly stop abusing women after high school.
Raster
(20,998 posts)...unless, of course, they admit their criminal actions and actively seek to remedy the situation, which KKKavanaugh has not.
triron
(22,020 posts)OnDoutside
(19,970 posts)magicarpet
(14,168 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)not that he, Kavanaugh, did it himself.
Although, it does mean something if he knew something & it didn't bother him.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)I doubt that he just knew about it in an office where he was the second most powerful person because of his relationship with the Chief Judge. My hunch is that he participated in at least some of it, or winked at it.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)lindysalsagal
(20,731 posts)It betrays a definite bias for men and their own sense of entitlement. This guy's garbage. Let him work at the phone company or the mall, but not on the supremes.
FakeNoose
(32,751 posts)Kozinski, Kavanaugh and others used the government email system to send each other porn-ish jokes. I'm pretty sure it was all men, but they were doing it in the office on company time. This same type of stuff happened in Pennsylvania a few years ago, and some judges and prosecutors got fired or resigned over it. Nasty and misogynist - and very adolescent.
geardaddy
(24,931 posts)and the taxpayers' dime.
bucolic_frolic
(43,287 posts)Did they ever look at other candidates when hiring for each other?
George II
(67,782 posts)torius
(1,652 posts)Guess he was too drunk to get the jokes.
BigmanPigman
(51,627 posts)Last edited Mon Sep 17, 2018, 08:12 PM - Edit history (1)
both on the Judiciary Comm and the rest of them. Here is contact info...RESISTANCE WORKS!
DC Senate Directory (202)224-3121
Judiciary Comm members' contact info
https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/about/members
4 "iffy" Dem and 4 "iffy" GOP contact info
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1011&pid=2543
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,627 posts)to call. Their local contact info is on the link as well. Bettyellen did a lot of work to put that together a week ago.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,627 posts)familiy and friends. I don't have social media so I have to rely on those who do. RESIST!
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)A couple tomorrow, another two or three on Wednesday, followed by more on Thursday. Let's see if the Republicans have the belly for it.
Grasswire2
(13,571 posts)bdamomma
(63,922 posts)has gambling problems among other things.
Grasswire2
(13,571 posts)Greywing
(1,124 posts)to Congress ... WTF he committed perjury, ho hum, so what.
This whole situation just makes me sick.
tazmaniac
(114 posts)had this letter & the letter from Blasey-Ford since July.......WHY didn't she do something with them? I understand her wanting to protect the privacy of B-F, but there had to have been something that could have been done.
Demsrule86
(68,674 posts)if we get the Senate Trump is done...politically smart.
calimary
(81,467 posts)procon
(15,805 posts)trail of victims. The news is littered with the carcasses of rich, powerful, and famous men who were sexual predators that were brought down by the combined voices of the women they traumatised.