{"id":7169,"date":"2020-02-15T13:02:53","date_gmt":"2020-02-15T17:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=7169"},"modified":"2020-02-15T13:05:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-15T17:05:00","slug":"this-is-what-happens-when-fox-is-guarding-the-hen-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=7169","title":{"rendered":"This is what happens when fox is guarding the hen house!"},"content":{"rendered":"

When a \u201cLiberal Lion\u201d Is Also Your Harasser<\/h1>\n

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A former clerk testified before Congress about the abuse she says she suffered working for Judge Stephen Reinhardt and what the law didn\u2019t do to protect her.<\/h3>\n

By SUSAN MATTHEWS
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There is little transparency around corrective actions for judges as courts are not required to publicly disclose how they resolve such complaints.
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Since the conversation on sexual harassment in the workplace broke open (again) in the fall of 2017, many smart people have tried to explain<\/a>\u00a0the dynamics of the abuse. Again and again it has come back to a simple maxim\u2014that harassment is\u00a0not only, or even predominantly about sex<\/a>; it is\u00a0about power<\/a>. And so we have spent the past few years trying to unpack how various industries and offices foster power imbalances that allow for such abuse, from the casting couch to academia (and beyond and beyond). One field that operates around a particularly terrible set of power dynamics is the one that is hypothetically tasked with correcting these problems: the law.<\/p>\n