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Nov 30, 2022Liked by David Lat

Great podcast David... I don't understand why a judge who had such issues with females, would torture himself by hiring a female clerk except for some sadistic, twisted pleasure to torture that female. Then all the recriminations afterward- such a waste of resources and emotions/

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Dec 1, 2022Liked by David Lat

Love the episode, but a small request - could we have the option to not receive the full transcript emails? Most podcast apps give notifications on new episodes anyways! No worries if it is not an easy feature to implement.

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Our friend Ken White wrote a harrowing account of his clerkship experience 30 years after the fact. https://popehat.substack.com/p/who-judges-the-judges

It would not take much work to determine the judge for whom Ken clerked and the Chief Judge of the Central District of California at the time, but since Ken elected not to include those details, I will not either.

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I was expecting, I don’t know, something like Anita Hill’s experience? Metoo going out on a whimper

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