You have reached the pinnacle of lawyerly success. You convinced enough voters that you had the experience, the intelligence and the integrity to serve on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. You hear that Chief Justice Ronald Castille – your boss – just received a treasure trove of pornographic emails sent to and from high-level attorneys and investigators formerly in the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General. You know that some of those individuals have now resigned and that Chief Justice Castille wants to determine for himself whether the emails contain pornography and whether any of his judicial staff received, opened, sent or forwarded the offending emails. You:

• Don’t worry because you neither sent nor received any pornographic emails.
• Don’t worry because you immediately reported any pornographic emails received to the Pennsylvania Judicial Conduct Board as possibly violations of the state judicial conduct rules.
• Worry because you sent emails containing over 1,500 sexually explicit images and 60 explicit video files to a now retired agent in the Office of Attorney General and decide to come clean.
• Take action. Make an early morning call to fellow Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Michael Eakin, explain you aren’t “going down alone” and demand he get the Chief Justice to retract a press release exposing that you sent and received offensive emails or you will disclose information about Justice Eakin and inappropriate emails. Give Justice Eakin until noon to comply.

If you picked the last two options, you may be Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Seamus McCaffery.

According to a letter Supreme Court Justice Michael Eakin sent to the Pennsylvania Judicial Conduct Board, fellow justice McCaffery called promptly at 8:22 a.m. the day after Chief Justice Castille revealed the results of his personal porn email audit. McCaffery then seemingly demanded that Eakin get Castille to retract his statement or else. According to the letter, Eakin said “I told him I would not attempt to do so even if it were possible,” and that McCaffrey then “repeated that I had to, and that he ‘needed an answer’ by noon to prevent the release of the emails involving my account.”

Around the same time Justice Eakin was drafting his letter to the Pennsylvania Judicial Conduct Board, the Philadelphia Daily News published an article claiming that Justice Eakin, going by the screen name “John Smith” and using a yahoo email account, received several risqué emails, including one with the subject “Send your buddy some titties day” that included 13 topless or fully nude images. According to the Daily News, that subject line was a regular feature in the porn email circle Attorney General Katherine Kane earlier exposed.

Dear reader, before you roll your eyes in disbelief and declare that things would be different if only there were more female justices – may I remind you that former Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Joan Orie Melvin is currently appealing part of the sentence imposed on her conviction for corruption. She was originally sentenced to write handwritten apologies to her fellow justices – on photos of herself in handcuffs. Needless to say, she’s appealing that. Never change, Pennsylvania Supreme Court. Never change.

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