Clerk Who Said Appeals Judge Harassed Her Blasts ‘Inaction’ (1)

The federal judiciary still isn’t doing enough to protect law clerks from sexual harassment, says an attorney who last year detailed to Congress troubling allegations about her experience as a clerk on the largest federal appeals court.

While Olivia Warren prepared for the possibility of little to no response before she appeared before a House Judiciary subcommittee in February 2020, she said in a Harvard Law Review article published this week “the inaction hurts more than I could have ever anticipated.”

Warren, who is now a staff attorney at the Center for Death Penalty Litigation, clerked for the late ...