Looks like the most Liberal court in the US is into pornography. No surprise.

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LOS ANGELES — A federal appeals court judge under scrutiny for sexually explicit videos and photos posted on a personal Web site is the victim of distortions and "outright lies" published by the Los Angeles Times, his wife charged Monday.

Marcy Jane Tiffany, wife of 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Chief Judge Alex Kozinski, described some of the material stored on the home computer as raunchy and juvenile. Only a handful of files among hundreds had a "sexual aspect," but they were not pornography, she said.

"Alex is not into porn — he is into funny — and sometimes funny has a sexual character," Tiffany wrote in a nearly 2,000-word defense of her husband, posted on a Web site called patterico.com.

Of the several hundred files in the computer folder at issue, "the vast majority was cute, amusing and not in the least bit sexual in nature," Tiffany, a Torrance, Calif., lawyer, wrote. "The tiny percentage of the material that was sexual in nature was all of a humorous character."

The cache of material came to light while the judge was presiding in the criminal case against a porn movie distributor. A Beverly Hills lawyer who indicated he had a dispute with the 9th Circuit said he was the source of the Times article.
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The Times account is "riddled with half-truths, gross mischaracterizations and outright lies," she said. She also faulted the media for repeating and embellishing what she described as misleading statements in the Times about the material.

The newspaper's California editor, David Lauter, said in a statement that the articles were fair and accurate and "speak for themselves."

The stories "raised important issues on a matter of significant public concern," Lauter said. "The judge was presented with the facts ... and was given a full opportunity to respond. We took his responses into account before publication and included what he said in our stories."

Those articles, Lauter added, "already have dealt with the salient issues."

Meanwhile Monday, U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts named five judges from the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, based in Philadelphia, to handle the ethics investigation into the Kozinski's conduct.

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Actually this judge is a libertarian who was appointed by Reagan. He is often the lone voice of reason on the court. From what I heard there were only a couple of pictures and they were more in the "joke" side than the pornography side (kind of like the picture of lasher humping the tail pipe - sexual, but hardly pornographic).

hehehehehe

You may have noticed, John Roberts started an investigation.
I'm sure the other 9th circuit Judges are taking notice.
We shall see how this affects their practice of "legislating from the bench"

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Oh Yes, and John Roberts is most certainly the most objective Justice to lead such an inquisition: I heard that John Roberts had appointed Pastor Hagee to head up this investigation, so that God would be adequately represented. ...pjwky

Who is Hagee?

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President-elect Clinton fooled the American people

I see you are hoping that Roberts will write the First Amendment out of the constitution and impose government censorship and legislate morality from the bench.

Roberts simply opened an investigation.

Do you think Judges should have some standards and morals to uphold?

Look at this insane case in Canada.

A Canadian court has overturned a father's punishment for his daughter after she refused to stay off the Internet, his attorney said Wednesday.

The girl, 12, took her father to Quebec Superior Court after he refused to allow her to go on a school trip for chatting on Web sites and then posting "inappropriate" pictures of herself online using a friend's computer, AFP reported.

The punishment was for the girl's "own protection," according to the father's attorney, Kim Beaudoin, who is appealing the ruling.

"She's a child," Beaudoin told AFP. "At her age, children test their limits and it's up to their parent to set boundaries. I started an appeal of the decision today to reestablish parental
authority, and to ensure that this case doesn't set a precedent."

Otherwise, she continued, "Parents are going to be walking on egg shells from now on."

According to court documents, the girl's Internet usage was the latest in a rash of disciplinary problems. But Justice Suzanne Tessier, who was presiding over the case, found the punishment too severe.

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John Hagee is that manipulative fear-mongering minister,and sadly a glutton too.
Nearly every breath he draws behind the pulpit is wasted praising a God who wants to punish all evildoers with eternal fire and death. Other than that I wil admit his morals are probably stellar . It's a shame though people buy his superstitious bullshit just because an unjust and tyrannical God might throw them in hell if they don't.


" I revolted at the recollection of what I had heard, and thought to myself that it was making God Almighty act like a passionate man, that killed his son when he could not revenge himself in any other way, and as I was sure a man would be hanged that did such a thing, I could not see for what purpose they preached such sermons. This was not one of that kind of thoughts that had
anything in it of childish levity; it was to me a serious reflection, arising from the idea I had that God was too good to do such an action, and also too almighty to be under any necessity of doing it. I believe in the same manner at this moment; and I moreover believe, that any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be a true system."

Thomas Paine "The Age Of Reason"

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James Otis of Massachusetts on Parliament
1768 :A parcel of button-makers ,pin-makers, horse jockeys,gamesters, pensioners,pimps, and whoremasters.

sic semper tyrannis

Touche...

And it was a Bush appointed right leaning judge who shut down the most recent PA 'Evolution' case...

And it was Nixon who appointed Blackmun (right leaning), Blackmun wrote the majority opinion for Roe Vs Wade...

Sorry WOW, this thread is making you look like a total idiot...