- Robert Ullman
In my piece about former state supreme court justice Richard B. Sanders's attempt to get back on the bench, I page through the man's history of being, as one knowledgeable person put it, "inexcusably insensitive on women's issues."
One example: Sanders's 2005 dissent in a case involving a middle school teacher who'd had a sexual relationship with a 13-year-old student.
Sanders, noting that the girl had at one point lied about the relationship, suggested she was partly to blame for what transpired. "She may be below the age of consent, but not below the age of honesty," Sanders wrote in his dissent, warning that the majority's ruling could encourage girls below the age of consent to "seduce" their teachers.
