Glad to see it -- Kent is scum.

U.S. District Judge Samuel Kent was indicted Thursday on charges of abusive sexual contact and attempted aggravated sexual abuse, making him the first federal judge to be charged with federal sex crimes and the first in Texas to be indicted in recent history.

The federal criminal investigation was launched in November 2007 after Kent's former case manager, Cathy McBroom, complained that the judge physically touched her under her clothing twice and and often made obscene suggestions during the six years she worked for him.

In the indictment, he is accused of various sexual contacts "with an intent to abuse, humiliate, harass, degrade... "

Frankly, I don't care that he is a Republican, and that this could lead to his removal from the bench. A man with any decency or moral fiber would have already resigned -- but then again, such a man wouldn't have engaged in such behavior.

And while this could potentially lead to his replacement by a liberal Democrat if Obama were to win the election, I think that cleansing the federal bench of this stain is more important.