Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Suspended with Pay After Pornographic Email Scandal
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Vladek/iStockphoto/Thinkstock(HARRISBURG, Pa.) — The Pennsylvania Supreme Court suspended one of its members on Monday after he was accused exchanging sexually explicit emails.
The court chose to relieve Seamus McCaffery of his judicial and administrative responsibilities in light of the email scandal. The court also noted allegations that McCaffery may have attempted to use his position to alter a judicial assignment outside of the scope of his duties, authorized his wife to accept referral fees from plaintiffs’ firms while she served as his administrative assistant, and improperly contacted a traffic-court official in connection with a citation issued to his wife.
Chief Justice Ronald Castille filed a concurring statement in which he said, “in my two decades of experience on this Court, no other Justice…has done as much to bring the Supreme Court into disrepute. No other Justice has failed to live up to the high ethical demands required of a Justice of this Court, or has been the constant focus of ethical lapses to the degree of Justice McCaffery.
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