Headline “in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette editorial reads “Eakin must resign: A justice’s raunchy emails are supremely offensive.”
The article goes on to say: “An initial review of the matter by an ethics panel said the Republican’s emails, from a personal account, were ‘mildly pornographic’ but did not merit disciplinary action, and Mr. Eakin apologized. Public outcry forced a second review, and last Tuesday the Judicial Conduct Board filed misconduct charges against Mr. Eakin, which means he will face a public trial before the Court of Judicial Discipline. In a 52-page complaint, it said Mr. Eakin ‘engaged in conduct so extreme that it brought the judicial office into disrepute’ ”
Except that isn’t what happened. It wasn’t “public outcry” that led to the second review by the Judicial conduct Board. It was information from Attorney General Kathleen Kane that she understood her office had turned over all of the e-mails found on the department’s computer to the Conduct Board and the Board’s claim that it had not received the most egregious of them.
Someone had edited the e-mails to remove those that would be most damning of Judge Eakin. So we have a Democrat Attorney General declaring all had been sent and her holdover Republican deputies who actually handled the matter.
So why the distortion?
Like LNP, the Post Gazette early on jumped to call for Kane’s removal, even before she was indicted. Like LNP, it now refuses to fully report on the evolving story which suggests that the editors were premature and mistaken.
Was this this out of folly or complicity?
In either case, shame on both of them!
Much going on behind closed doors regarding Attorney General Kane. Seems the Old Boys don’t care much for what she has to say.
The fact is that however the Emails became public they are hateful and egregious and raise very serious issues re the competency of one to serve as a Justice on the highest court where the cases that are heard are places where the email attitudes are highly germane.