Discussion for article #229072
Oh my goodness, what’s the world coming to?
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You need a more recent photo of the PA Supreme Court. That old picture includes Republican Joan Orie Melvin, who is now a convicted felon and no longer on the state supreme court.
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…and yet so many other judges do some seriously fucked up shit and are revered.
It’s not a fair world, just like my daddy said.
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Just remember, these are the best and the brightest in the state. Only they can determine The True Law.
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TLQ-- you and I are usually in agreement-- and you may yet agree with me here.
If this man who stands in judgement of others’ freedom and fiscal well-being can take it for granted that he’s above everyone else-- in thinking he can send porn over government IT resources?
Then I submit this is the tip of an iceberg of further transgressions-- that we may never see.
Explicit images are fine by me. Everybody has their tastes-- and are welcome to them.
But the attitude of privilege-- and of being untouchable-- is where the real transgressions lay.
Someone who lacks good judgement-- who rules over the lives of everyday folks?
Is likely to not have been fair in all cases.
Kick his butt to the curb PA. Without pension.
It’s the only way to let folks know the playing field isn’t tilted.
jw1
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You have some good points there and I do agree.
He’s definitely not a professional and he should be.
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Pennsylvania–still holding on to that Classiest State title.
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But Justice is supposed to be blind. What harm can some jpg’s do if you can’t see them?
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I’m going to have to see the evidence before I make my judgement in this case.
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I’m uncertain about this…It was his personal email and apparently none of the pictures were illegal themselves. What is the infraction?
It is more fun when the hypocrites are Republicans.
Justice Seamus McCaffery
The pornography didn’t involve dog-on-car sex, did it?
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[quote] If this man who stands in judgement of others’ freedom and fiscal well-being can take it for granted that he’s above everyone else-- in thinking he can send porn over government IT resources? [/quote] Where in this article did it mention he sent porn over govenment computers?
If I read correctly he used a personal email account to send them. No mention of using government or court computers.
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Who wants to fingerprint this guy? Anyone?
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…his personal email to send pornographic images to state employees.
Read a tad deeper.
You can send email from a personal account using a government PC or device.
If he’d sent porn to those individuals’ personal accounts via a PC or device he owned?
They wouldn’t be referred to as state employees.
And we wouldn’t be reading about it.
This too, from an earlier TPM story linked in the article above:
“Attorney General Kane believes it is in the public’s best interest to have a good understanding of how its public servants conduct their business,” Martin said, according to the paper. “She also believes transparency on this issue is a very good way to help ensure that the exchanging of sexually explicit materials through internal emails on state-owned equipment, during official work hours, doesn’t happen elsewhere.”
jw1
Stupid or entitled? (Do I have to pick?)
What kind of idiot sends out porn to TWO HUNDRED state employees and expects it to not become public knowledge AND expects zero consequences?
This is a top legal mind deciding other peoples’ fates?
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5 years and the electric chair should be sufficient penalty. And burn that robe, Yechh!
Personal email account, but government computer network. Big difference. Besides, we’re talking 230+ emails that are porn related out of the 2,800 approx. checked for him. That’s how this was discovered, government network. That’s a lot of time wasted on the tax payers dime. Now, if he was doing this at home, no biggie.
But the bigger issue is, the mindset of someone who one day might be called upon to hear a case involving porn. If no one knew about this, would he voluntarily recuse himself? Knowing Seamus McCaffery, I doubt it.
Unfortunately, PA has been putting the dregs of the judiciary on it’s SC for quite a while now. Not sure when this can be rectified.
This entire episode came about because of work being done on the Sandusky case. This was all found on computers in the PA government computer network. When the whiff of this first came out, the media asked for access via the Sunshine Act. It went to court, and the court said only information not related to ongoing cases could be released.
These folks were stupid enough to conduct this activity on equipment owned by the taxpayers. The IT forensic teams found all this mess on network, not their personal equipment. I still say you can make a case for young and stupid, old and stupid no.
What one Philadelphia newspaper has to say on the subject…
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