A recent opinion by a judge on the US Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit is a contender for the most vulgar piece of judicial writing in the 300-plus-year history of recorded judicial decisions in the English language.
The opinion in Olympus Spa v. Andretti — a dissent from the 9th Circuit’s decision not to rehear a case involving a potential conflict between transgender rights and free exercise rights — opens with this astonishing sentence: “This is a case about swinging d*cks.”
Except Judge Lawrence VanDyke, an appointee of President Donald Trump, didn’t use an asterisk.
VanDyke’s use of ...