Thanks to the invaluable How Appealing appellate blog, here is copy of the complaint against Judge Alex Kozinski.

The 38-page complaint brims with heat, anger and frustration, as former Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts head Ralph Mecham seeks the "impeachment or resignation" of Kozinski. The tone of Mecham's furiousness is captured in his multiple exclamation points, his denunciations of Kozinski's "faithful press lackies" and his characterization of Kozinski as "a long-time protector and user of pornography."

The complaint starts with the declaration that in May 2001, Judge Kozinski "sabotaged" the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals computer security system "solely to make it impossible to detect the downloading of illegal pornography and illegal music." Mecham states such naughty downloading had "increased massively" in the previous two years. Without pinpointing who was getting what, Mecham further states that:

"In just one 28-day period, for instance, a Ninth Circuit study found that there were over 90,000 hits on 1,100 pornographic sites. An Internet broad bandwidth study conducted soon after at three secure sites, including San Francisco, by agents of the Judicial Conference of the United States found that in just one year fully 50 percent of the increased use of the Judiciary's bandwidth was to download pornography in the Federal Courts, on Court computers by Court officials and employees."

Mr. Mecham is 80, and his complaint is filled with the kind of fervency sometimes associated with pro se filings. Significantly, it appears that similar complaints he filed last year with the Judicial Conference of the United States came entirely to naught, as Judge Thomas Hogan wrote in February that "the matter was concluded seven years ago (and) there was no finding of judicial misconduct."