Rips & Blasts?! The press is feeling destructive today, with headlines like these:
The latter two stories are about Olivia Warren, a staff attorney at the Center for Death Penalty Litigation, who "clerked for the late Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in 2017 and 2018 and alleges he sexually harassed her. Warren said she hoped her decision to speak publicly about her experiences would “light a torch” for someone to do something."
“I am not aware of anyone taking any steps, much less the ‘bold steps’ over half of Reinhardt’s clerks called for—not the Ninth Circuit, not the federal judiciary, not Congress, not Harvard Law School, not any of the Reinhardt clerks themselves,” Warren said. “To my knowledge, there have been no public conversations about or reflections upon individual actions and inactions that might have contributed to the problem.”
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