Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. said Monday that the federal judiciary has made strides in protecting law clerks and other employees from sexual harassment and other workplace misconduct, but he added that too often, such behavior is still unreported. “The job is not finished until we have done all that we can to ensure that all of our employees are treated with fairness, dignity, and respect,” Roberts wrote in his annual Year-End Report on the Federal Judiciary. But Roberts did not address two issues that have drawn criticism: that investigations of federal judges end if a judge retires or resigns, and that the rules do not apply to Supreme Court justices. The larger examination of judicial misconduct began after The Washington Post reported in 2017 about sexual misconduct allegations against Alex Kozinski, a once-influential and well-known judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. Kozinski stepped down from the bench amid reports from 15 women who said he subjected them to a wide range of sexual misconduct, from showing them explicit images in his chambers to touching them inappropriately.

Source: Washington Post December 31, 2018 23:00 UTC