Beer in the Headlights

More like a Sodom and Gommorah side show.

Judge Alex Kozinski is more accustomed to appearing on lists to fill U.S. Supreme Court vacancies than in headlines involving pornographic scandals.

But on Wednesday, the chief judge of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in California -- the country's largest federal appeals court -- was forced to suspend an obscenity trial he was presiding over after sexually explicit images posted to his personal Web site became public.

The Los Angeles Times reported on its Web site that Kozinski had posted sexual material on his personal Web site and then blocked access after being interviewed about it Tuesday evening.

Kozinski, 57, told the Times he thought the material on his site, which included a video of a man cavorting with a sexually aroused farm animal, couldn't be seen by the public. The judge said he didn't believe any of the images were obscene.

"Is it prurient? I don't know what to tell you," he told the newspaper. "I think it's odd and interesting. It's part of life."

He then suspended until Monday the trial of Ira Isaacs, who is charged with obscenity for selling movies depicting bestiality and extreme fetishes involving feces and urination. Appellate judges such as Kozinski occasionally handle trial court cases.

Odd? Interesting? Part of life?

No, no and no.

Small wonder the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has more of its decisions overturned by the US Supreme Court than any other Circuit Court. San Francisco liberalism. Freaks.

Seven years ago, he engaged Washington, D.C., federal court administrators in a battle over Web filters they installed to block porn from government computers. The computer-savvy Kozinski walked into a government computer room in San Francisco and personally disabled the filters for three appellate circuits, including his own, touching off a feud with administrators he ultimately won when they stopped blocking porn.

So Judge Kozinski thinks thinks that government employees can surf for smut on our dime? Nice.

Unfortunately federal judges need to be impeached by Congress. Not going to happen under Pelosi's watch.