CNN's Joan Biskupic reports on Judicial #MeToo issues
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CNN Investigation:
Sexual misconduct by judges kept under wraps
One morning in 1998, US District Court Judge Walter Smith called a deputy clerk into his chambers in the Waco, Texas, courthouse and closed the door behind her.
"He basically came over to me and put his arms around me and kissed me, and I just froze. I couldn't move," the woman said in a deposition. "And he said, 'Let me make love to you.' And I just freaked out. ... And then he pulled me to him again, and he kissed me again and stuck his tongue down my throat, and he pressed himself against me. ... And then he started to try touch my breasts, and I kind of pushed away and said ... 'I need to go.'"
n recent months, powerful men in Hollywood, the media, Congress and other spheres have been accused of sexual harassment. A common theme has been men abusing their positions in settings where women feel they have no recourse.
The abuse women have suffered in the nation's courthouses has been a largely untold story. And its system for complaints -- where judges police fellow judges -- is a world so closely controlled and cloaked in secrecy that it defies public scrutiny.
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Joan Biskupi. (Picture in Tweet, above) has dedicated her life to reporting & researching the United States Supreme Court; and she also recently reported on the fact SCOTUS Justice Ginsberg's steadfastness.
Word is that Joan Biskupic has another judicial story coming out, after extensive research by a most excellent data guy.
Biskupic is focusing on the fact that judges should be of better moral fiber/ character than that troddened by the crowd; but some know they have power and that they tend to abuse it in despicable fashion.
The citizenry agrees with CNN & Joan Biskupic - that America needs better processes to assure Judicial integrity!
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