Posted: 31 Dec 2018 03:00 PM PST<\/em><\/p>\n A working group created to review the safeguards in place to protect law clerks and other employees concluded, Roberts reported, that \u201cinappropriate workplace conduct is not pervasive within the Judiciary, but it is also not limited to a few isolated instances involving law clerks\u201d and \u201cfrequently goes unreported.\u201d<\/strong> Roberts endorsed the recommendations made by the group, which included making changes to the codes of conduct for both judges and employees to make clear that both harassment and retaliation against employees who report misconduct are prohibited.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/span>Roberts observed that he was \u201cpleased\u201d that the judiciary has \u201cmobilized to ensure that\u201d it is \u201cthe exemplary workplace that we all want,\u201d but he added that \u201cthe job is not finished until we have done all that we can to ensure that all of our employees are treated with fairness, dignity, and respect.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n As he had last year, Roberts recognized the efforts of judiciary employees responding to natural disasters, including this year\u2019s \u201cfloods in Florida and North Carolina, Super Typhoon Yutu in the Northern Mariana Islands, the Alaska earthquake that damaged the Anchorage courthouse, and the new wildfires in Northern California.\u201d But after his comments in November rebuking President Donald Trump for describing a federal judge who ruled against the Trump administration\u2019s new asylum policy as an \u201cObama judge,\u201d Roberts remained silent on judicial independence.<\/em><\/p>\n The post The chief justice\u2019s 2018 year-end report: The federal judiciary and #MeToo<\/a> appeared first on SCOTUSblog<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" John Roberts took on #MeToo in his year-end report. Gee whizzakers! What judicial courage! When he wrote the lines I bolded below, did he wince or display any physical evidence of irony, or stick his tongue into his cheek — … Continue reading ![](\"http:\/\/www.scotusblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/SocialLogo_400x400-150x150.jpg\")
Chief Justice John Roberts released his annual report on the federal judiciary today, focusing on the judiciary\u2019s response to allegations of sexual misconduct in the workplace. Roberts had discussed this issue in his 2017 report, after several female law clerks accused Judge Alex Kozinski \u2013 then a prominent judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit \u2013 of inappropriate sexual conduct.<\/em><\/p>\n