Jessica Horton
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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The NPR Politics Podcast · NPR Investigation: Harassment In The Federal Court System · 1 Mar 2025
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She told me that she took off two weeks when she had each of her children. And so she said, you can expect the same. And at the time, I had no context for how little that is.
My judge at one point asked me how dilated I was. And I didn't know not to like, and so she's like, well, maybe when you go to your appointment, the doctor should check. I had no idea. Like, I mean, at the time, like I knew that that was wrong. Looking back, that is so incredibly inappropriate.
And I remember I was still wearing all the pads because I was still bleeding. I was leaking milk everywhere. And I just remember dropping him off at my mom's house and being gone for those few hours and just being completely miserable.
And I felt like it would have been career suicide at that point to leave my clerkship.
Yeah, literally on the calendar, and every day I'd cross it off and just count down the days until I could be done with that and put it behind me.
But after this experience, I changed my mind and I think kind of put a nail in the coffin of my legal career pretty early.
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