The #MaleChauvinistJudgeConradHafen is banned from the bench and "agreed" to "public censure" - for handcuffing a public defender for making a constitutional argument, and for several other cases. But, unabated bashing of female litigants and attorneys in the courtroom continues

I've run a blog last year about a male chauvinist judge Conrad Hafen of Nevada who has handcuffed a female public defender for making a constitutional argument in court on behalf of her indigent client.

The judge was then voted out of office and is now, reportedly, banned from ever be a judge in the future.

But, other judges are taking up the torch from Conrad Hafen.

There is still North Carolina judge Peter Knight who publicly reprimanded a woman for breastfeeding in the courtroom.

There is still Judge G. Todd Baugh of Montana who reportedly blamed the child victim of rape for committing suicide, and who is only going to be "censured", but remains on the bench.

There is still the California judge Aaron Persky who was re-elected, running unopposed, even though, as a sexist pig that he is, he has given only a slap on the wrist to a "golden kid", a Stanford University "athlete" Brock Turner, after the latter had sex with an unconscious woman right in the street.

Judge Persky was not disciplined - because he "did nothing wrong", and, moreover, a bunch of more elite kids, Stanford Law graduates, raised their voices - no, not in support of the victim, but in support of Judge Persky, the protector of the criminal.

Yet, I oppose fighting just for "women's rights". 

What is needed is to eliminate the hurdles to resolve urgent human rights issues in this country - remove procedural barriers to civil rights actions in federal courts, remove the fear grip of the judiciary upon attorneys making them squawk in support of judges who feed them, instead of in support of victims of judicial misconduct.

Until that happens - "women's marches" won't help.