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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/
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.
Thanks for flagging this. I was going to tell you that you can opt out of these notifications under your settings (https://davidlat.substack.com/account?utm_source=user-menu), but when I went to settings myself, I saw this was not an option.
I have asked the Substack support team to see if this feature can be added. Fingers crossed!
From Substack (so check your settings page in a few weeks):
"It's not an option right now, but I just spoke directly to one of the product teams and this is in the pipeline. The ability for subscribers to turn off email notifications for podcasts will ship in a few weeks."
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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.
Yes. This was a very powerful—and disturbing—essay. It was definitely on my mind as I spoke with Aliza. As Ken's story reflects, these are not new problems, even if they might be coming to light a little more often than in the past (which was basically never).
There are a range of experiences. Many are not public because of the issues Aliza identifies, but one clerk's story that is public (because she also submitted congressional testimony) is that of Olivia Warren, who clerked for the late Judge Stephen Reinhardt (and also then-Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson on the D.D.C.).
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/
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.
Thanks for flagging this. I was going to tell you that you can opt out of these notifications under your settings (https://davidlat.substack.com/account?utm_source=user-menu), but when I went to settings myself, I saw this was not an option.
I have asked the Substack support team to see if this feature can be added. Fingers crossed!
From Substack (so check your settings page in a few weeks):
"It's not an option right now, but I just spoke directly to one of the product teams and this is in the pipeline. The ability for subscribers to turn off email notifications for podcasts will ship in a few weeks."
Thanks for looking into this. Huge help in keeping my inbox clean. This newsletter rocks -- getting an email that a new post is out is sometimes the highlight of my workday!
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.
Yes. This was a very powerful—and disturbing—essay. It was definitely on my mind as I spoke with Aliza. As Ken's story reflects, these are not new problems, even if they might be coming to light a little more often than in the past (which was basically never).
I was expecting, I don’t know, something like Anita Hill’s experience? Metoo going out on a whimper
There are a range of experiences. Many are not public because of the issues Aliza identifies, but one clerk's story that is public (because she also submitted congressional testimony) is that of Olivia Warren, who clerked for the late Judge Stephen Reinhardt (and also then-Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson on the D.D.C.).
https://www.congress.gov/116/meeting/house/110505/witnesses/HHRG-116-JU03-Wstate-WarrenO-20200213-U2.pdf