Hard to make this any more marvelous — the judge in a big L.A. porn case turns out to have his own unusual peccadillos:
Kozinski is one of the nation’s highest-ranking judges and has been mentioned as a possible candidate for the U.S. Supreme Court. He was named chief judge of the 9th Circuit last year and is considered a judicial conservative on most issues. He was appointed to the federal bench by President Reagan in 1985.
Mentioned for the Supreme Court? By whom — the United Dairy Farmers?
UPDATE: Then again, dude might be getting treated unfairly. Or not.
Seems to swing on whether he was responsible for material on his own publicly accessible server. Which may be a bit like the online equivalent of being responsible for what people can see through your window if they look in from the street. The argument now seems to be over whether the weirdness was deep inside, and you had to squint, or pressed up close enough to the window that anyone would assume it to be visible. So even a judge caught with cow porn while doing an obscenity case is still in an ethical gray area. Holy crap. That’s almost more fun to get your head around about than the story itself.