PITTSBURG POST-GAZETTE: When judges are forced to raise money and campaign for office like politicians, it should be no surprise that they often act like politicians, according to judicial watchdogs.
Exhibit A is former Justice Joan Orie Melvin, whose tenure on the state Supreme Court was done in by politicking illegally on the public dime, using office staff to do campaign work. She was booted from the Supreme Court two years ago.
And that open politicking — and worse — is once again on full display on Pennsylvania’s top court, where Chief Justice Ronald Castille and Justice Seamus McCaffery have spent the past few weeks engaging in a bitter back and forth, stemming from Justice McCaffery’s role in the state’s ongoing pornographic email scandal… (more)
