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Lawyer turned writer, editor, and speaker. Founder, Above The Law (@ATLblog) and Underneath Their Robes. Author, Supreme Ambitions: A Novel (@SCOTUSambitions).

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    1. Peter Conti-Brown‏ @PeterContiBrown 22 Dec 2017

      Peter Conti-Brown Retweeted David Lat

      1/ Retweeting bec this is the crux. I think the line (even for me in 2014, hence my comment about this then) is crossed when a domineering judge obsesses about his subordinates’ looks, an irrelevant detail for the job.https://twitter.com/DavidLat/status/944199132125847554 …

      Peter Conti-Brown added,

      David LatVerified account @DavidLat
      Replying to @PeterContiBrown
      I might have calibrated wrong (as a writer), but I meant for the character to go up to - but not cross - the line. I’m too much of a coward/brown-noser to brazenly, knowingly insult someone who was, in 2014, a highly respected, federal appellate judge.
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    2. Peter Conti-Brown‏ @PeterContiBrown 22 Dec 2017

      2/ You describe his clerk as being uncomfortable with his behavior, but spun it as affable and edgy, even to the point of “vaguely flirtatious” banter being charming.

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    3. Peter Conti-Brown‏ @PeterContiBrown 22 Dec 2017

      3/ And that was the problem with the Kozinski enabling. He was too powerful to accept his harassment on anything other than his terms: he’s just edgy and boundary-pushing, charming and rakish.

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    4. Peter Conti-Brown‏ @PeterContiBrown 22 Dec 2017

      4/ When we deliver that control to shape the narrative, boundaries don’t get pushed—they get crossed. New norms develop.

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    5. Peter Conti-Brown‏ @PeterContiBrown 22 Dec 2017

      5/ And people like Heidi Bond and all of Kozinski’s other targets are made to feel like they are the ones who can’t take a joke when in fact we should never have accepted the new rules at all.

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    6. Peter Conti-Brown‏ @PeterContiBrown 22 Dec 2017

      6/ @DavidLat, you weren’t unusual for enabling the Kozinski “rakish cad” narrative, but you were certainly part of it. So were the other judges. And law professors. And former clerks.

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      David Lat‏Verified account @DavidLat 22 Dec 2017
      Replying to @PeterContiBrown

      Yes. But again, I did not do so knowingly. And I was not the only one. See @Dahlialithwick’s piece:http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2017/12/judge_alex_kozinski_made_us_all_victims_and_accomplices.html …

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        1. Peter Conti-Brown‏ @PeterContiBrown 22 Dec 2017
          Replying to @DavidLat @Dahlialithwick

          Very far from the only one. Hundreds of people were part of this. Which only makes it more tragic.

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