As was recently reported by the blog "Above the Law", hackers into the Ashley Madison website published information about names and e-mail addresses of account holders in Ashley Madison and - guess what - some of them were federal judges who accessed the accounts from their court computers.
Now, this particular information cannot possibly be private as information contained on public computers and not in regards to the specific job of judges, is not private.
I do not care with whom federal judges cheat on their wives - men, women or animals.
But I do care if they do that on the job, instead of addressing their caseloads, and especially because, as a civil rights attorney, I know that civil rights cases are tossed as a matter of policy, to clear the allegedly busy dockets.
I wonder if the "busy dockets" are cleared by judges of the pesky cases involving constitutional violations just to free judges' time to play in Ashley Madison or pursue other personal entertainment in public time, on public dime and on public computers.
And for that reason - names of judges who used federal computers to access their Ashley Madison account, if it is already hidden after hackers made it public, should be made permanently public - because it IS a public record on a matter of serious public concern.
And - impeachment of those judges is in order, because judges in federal court may serve only "during behavior" and trying to use a public computer in order to cheat on their wives during their public time and on public dime is definitely not good behavior.
So - who are the "winners"?
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