Former Clerk Accuses Late Judge Reinhardt of Sex Harassment (4)

A former clerk to late liberal icon Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit accused him of sex harassment, including crass commentary and displaying explicit drawings.

Olivia Warren, now at The Center for Death Penalty Litigation, made the explosive allegations on Thursday at a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing on the adequacy of workplace misconduct reforms in the federal judiciary.

Despite being warned to brace herself for “your grandfather’s sexism,” Warren said nothing “fully prepared me for the profane atmosphere I entered when I began my clerkship.”

The explicit written and oral testimony hit ...