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235: Walter S. Smith

Sexual Harassment, Sexual Misconduct
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Walter S. Smith was a federal judge in Waco, Texas. He was appointed by Ronald Reagan and served 32 years before resigning to evade accountability. While he didn’t run into trouble until 2015, he sexually harassed and groped a woman in 1998 and it was her complaint that was featured, though there were several complaints. This is not unusual, in a study by CNN found less than 1% of complaints were referred to a special committee for investigation. In her case, a lawyer filed a complaint and raised a stink.

In 2017, U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Roberts created a committee to investigate sexual harassment in the federal judiciary. In 2015, Smith had been reprimanded for sexual harassment, ordered him to attended sexual harassment training, and told him he could not hear any new cases for a year. However, a federal judicial conduct committee told the 5th Circuit they need to investigate again because it was alleged this was a pattern of behavior. As soon as that happened, he resigned, which saved his pension and ended the investigation.

228: Brett Kavanaugh

Rape Culture, Sexual Assault
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Brett Kavanaugh is a Supreme Court Justice. During his confirmation hearing, news of an attempted rape allegation was leaked to the media and became a significant part of his confirmation hearing. Like Clarence Thomas before him, he indulged in an angry rant that shut off further inquiry into the allegation.

Christine Blasey Ford testified at the hearing and so did Kavanaugh. He produced his calendar from back in high school to provide himself an alibi, though it substantiated her timeline more effectively than his. Other women came forward alleging sexual assaults but they were not called as witnesses and their allegations were not investigated. The FBI did not do an investigation of her allegation, though they claimed to have done so at the time. Tips about Kavanaugh’s past were not forwarded for investigation but instead sent to the White House.

206: Chuck Hunter

Child Sexual Abuse Material, Solicitation of a Minor
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Chuck Hunter was 61 and though he lost his race for Circuit Court 10 in 2010 but in 2012 he was running for Circuit Court 11. He placed an ad on Craigslist seeking someone under 30 for sex. An undercover police officer responded in the role of a 14-year-old boy. After several back-and-forth messages, Hunter arranged to meet this 14-year-old at a restaurant with the intention of having sex. He was arrested when he showed up. They got a search warrant and found him in possession of child sexual exploitation materials.

148: Clarence Thomas

Sexual Harassment
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In 1991, when Clarence Thomas was nominated for the Supreme Court, Anita Hill was interviewed by the FBI during their investigation of him. She was a former colleague and so was expected to confirm his good character. Instead, she told the FBI that he had sexually harassed her. Her interview was leaked and there was a media firestorm during the Clarence Thomas hearings with Republican senators calling her a liar and Democrats doing their best to see nothing. Hill had corroborating witnesses who were never called.

144: Samuel Barstow Kent

Sexual Assault
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Samuel B. Kent was a federal district judge appointed by George H. W. Bush. He was a powerful man at the top of the ladder in Galveston, TX. He abused that power by sexual assaulting the women who worked for the district court. When one woman came forward, he was given a short suspension, a coverup by the judges he worked with. However, her complaint triggered an FBI investigation that led to his indictment and eventual conviction and prison sentence. He was also impeached, taking away his salary and pension. He was the first district judge to be indicted for sexual assault.

140: Alex Kozinski

Sexual Harassment
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Judge Alex Kozinski was Brett Kavanaugh’s mentor. A Reagan appointee, he spent decades on the bench and it seems likely he was sexually harassing women all along, but six women came forward in 2017, then another nine women. He resigned. Trump hired him for his legal battle with Twitter. Wikipedia: Alex Kozinski Washington Post: Judge…

111: Judge Donald Thompson

Indecent Exposure
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Republican Judge Donald Thompson was convicted and sentenced to four years in prison for using a penis pump in the courtroom during trials. A court reporter complained that he exposed himself and police found semen stains under the bench which indicates his denials were not true. The jury did not believe him. USA Today: Penis…

48: Tim Nolan

Child Rape, Sexual Assault, Trafficking
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Tim Nolan was a tough-on-crime judge, a Republican party activist, and a Trump campaign supporter. The story of his progress from “hanging judge” to felon is circuitous and centers on a bar he owned. But however he got there, Tim Nolan pleaded guilty to 21 counts of human trafficking, some of the cases involving minors.…

8: Mark Pazuhanich

Child Molestation
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Mark Pazuhanich of Pennsylvania was a District Attorney who had just been elected judge when he was charged with fondling a 10-year-old girl (his daughter) in the crowd of a concert. A woman witnessed it and told security, who detained Pazuhanich. He was charged with public drunkenness but later charged with indecent assault. His daughter…