Judges Have Needs

A jimmy hat tip to Above the Law for this little tidbit:

One of the highest-ranking federal judges in the United States, who is currently presiding over an obscenity trial in Los Angeles, has maintained a publicly accessible website featuring sexually explicit photos and videos.

Alex Kozinski, chief judge of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, acknowledged in an interview with The Times that he had posted the materials, which included a photo of naked women on all fours painted to look like cows and a video of a half-dressed man cavorting with a sexually aroused farm animal. Some of the material was inappropriate, he conceded, although he defended other sexually explicit content as "funny."

Wait, what?

a video of a half-dressed man cavorting with a sexually aroused farm animal.

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph! I don't even know what to make of this. Look, Kozinski may, by some, be regarded as a good judge. Truthfully, I haven't read enough of his stuff to know. But this has some serious whoa-ness to it. At the very least, this is stuff of which impeachment hearings are made. There may not be a vote to impeach, but I would hope that John Conyers would be able to take some time to think about this one.

Of course, with all the innumerable investigations that Mr. Conyers has ongoing, investigations in which lives are at stake, The Case of the Pornography-Purveying Judge might not be high on his priority list.