Alex Kozinski, one of the nation's highest ranking judges, apparently posted some disturbing pornographic images on a website. This comes during a time when the 9th Circuit (of which, Kozinksi is the chief judge) is hearing an obscenity case. Some of the pictures the judge posted were of women on all fours, painted to look like cows and a man traipsing about with an aroused farm animal.
Kozinski maintains that he thought he uploaded the images to a private site which couldn't be viewed by the public. Even if that's true, it displays a disturbing degree of negligence for a respected federal judge.
A blogger at Concurring Opinions brings up the good point that Kozinski's take of the explicit images as "funny" raises the question of how a judge's ruling (or opinion or whatever) on, let's say a harassment case or a rape case is perceived by the judge's public persona. If you were a woman in front of a judge who did something like Kozinski did, wouldn't you be especially concerned that he may view all women as cows or something equally misogynistic? That's not to say that Kozinski hates women. But, as the link I posted to points out, the accuracy of a perception like that isn't relevant. His actions have some pretty serious negative consequences for the judiciary as a whole.
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