U.S. District Judge Richard Kopf of Omaha, trying to be helpful, advised women lawyers in his courtroom to lower their hemlines and cover their cleavage because males, including Kopf himself, are “pigs.” In March, he wrote in his personal blog: “I have been a dirty old man ever since I was a very young man” and that women in his office are similarly contemptuous of daringly dressed female lawyers. The lifetime-tenured judge later said he regretted any harm to the judiciary his remarks may have caused.
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