Chief Justice Roberts' Year-End Report: Judiciary 'Not Immune' from Sexual Harassment
“We have a new challenge in the coming year,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in his annual year-end report. “Events in recent months have illuminated the depth of the problem of sexual harassment in the workplace, and events in the past few weeks have made clear that the judicial branch is not immune.”
December 31, 2017 at 06:00 PM
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Without mentioning Judge Alex Kozinski by name, Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. on Sunday decried recent reports about sexual harassment in the workplace and said the problem warrants “serious attention from all quarters of the judicial branch.”
Roberts discussed the issue in his annual year-end report, just weeks after Kozinski, former chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit abruptly retired amidst news reports quoting female law clerks and others who stated that he engaged them in unwelcomed and sexually charged conversations and physical interactions.
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