How Will Pa. Supreme Court Deal With Porn Scandal?
Seamus McCaffery and J. Michael Eakin, have both been connected to an ever-growing Harrisburg scandal concerning racy emails sent between top government officials.
Now that Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justices Seamus McCaffery and J. Michael Eakin have been connected to racy emails in an ever-widening scandal, the question becomes: What next? Is exposure the end of the line, or will some kind of punishment ensue?
The Inquirer reports that three different options have emerged:
• “Chief Justice Ronald D. Castille has urged his colleagues to handle the matter swiftly and decisively by suspending McCaffery from his judicial duties and appointing a special master to investigate the matter.”
• McCaffery “and at least some other justices believe the question is best left up to the Judicial Conduct Board — the state body that handles judicial ethics complaints but that Castille and his advisers feel has been painstakingly slow in taking action.”
• “I think the appropriate thing would be a referral to the Judicial Conduct Board and the appointment of a special prosecutor to that board focused only on this particular set of issues,” says former Justice Russell M. Nigro. “It would be much cleaner, would be a quicker way to get to the bottom of it, and get it resolved so the court can get back to normalcy.”
Which way it might go is still up in their air: The Inky says five remaining justices on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court have not yet tipped their hand as to how they think any investigation should proceed.
