Email Scandals, Pornography, State Judges, State Judges Are Clowns, Vicious Infighting

Judges Are At Each Other's Throats Over 'Porngate' Scandal

It seems like these judges are about to get into a fist fight with each other.

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Earlier this month, news of the Pennsylvania “porngate” scandal spread like wildfire. Hundreds of pornographic and racy emails were exchanged between government employees and officials from 2008 to 2012, and when the public found out that a state supreme court justice was involved, the situation grew even stickier.

When Seamus McCaffery, the judge in question, was initially fingered in the investigation, he wasn’t interested in speaking to the media. “Not only do I not have any comment,” he said, “but since when does the news media pry into personal emails?” When a judge’s personal emails to prosecutors and judges include graphic pictures and videos of salacious sex acts, everyone wants a peek.

Needless to say, Chief Justice Ron Castille of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court is pissed, and he’s taken to the presses to condemn his colleague — not only because he didn’t get to play in McCaffery’s sexy reindeer games, but because McCaffery’s actions have cast a “cloud over all of the courts.”

In response to Castille’s comments on the situation, McCaffery has issued a response. He may be sorry about the porn, but he’s definitely not sorry that he’s calling out Castille on his judicial douchebaggery…

Before we get to McCaffery’s fauxpology, this is what inspired the judge to write it in the first place. It seems that after reviewing some of the emails McCaffery shared — one of which he referred to as “the most disgusting piece of obscenity I have ever seen in my life” — Castille decided that enough was enough when he found out McCaffery exchanged sexual images with his brother, a trial court judge.

Castille urged his colleagues Friday to take action against Justice Seamus P. McCaffery, reacting to newly disclosed sexually explicit e-mails McCaffery sent this year to the government account of his brother, a Philadelphia Common Pleas Court judge.

In an interview, Castille, who viewed the messages obtained by The Inquirer, said their graphic contents “undermine our moral authority” and the respect the citizenry has for the court system.

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McCaffery issued a statement, perhaps annoyedly, after discovering that Castille had further sullied his name. Perhaps that’s why McCaffery’s statement is more like a big fat middle finger pointed in Castille’s direction rather than a real apology. Yes, he’s “truly sorry” for his “lapse in judgment,” but more importantly, he thinks that Castille is a huge a-hole. Here’s an excerpt from McCaffery’s media statement:

This latest cooked-up controversy over my personal emails is part of a vindictive pattern of attacks by the soon-to-be-retired Chief Justice, Ronald Castille. He is fixated on taking down a fellow justice with his misleading statements and incredible hypocrisy. Isn’t it time for the press to ask the real question? Why is the Chief Justice fixated on hurling one accusation after another at me, in an ongoing attempt to discredit me? …

Ron Castille’s statement yesterday, issued on AOPC letterhead and purporting to represent the position of the entire Supreme Court, was a lie. In fact, members of the Supreme Court did not even know about the statement until they read the publication. And it is only the latest lie in the Chief Justice’s egomaniacal mission to “get me.” His mission began when he reported me to the Federal Bureau of Investigation over my wife’s legitimate receipt of referral fees, and that didn’t work. He has done everything possible within our Court to undermine me with my colleagues, and that didn’t work. Now, with only two months left in the hourglass of his tenure on our Court, he is trying to finish what he has been trying to do for so many years. He has been on this mission because I had the guts to challenge him on the Family Court fiasco and on what the citizens of Pennsylvania got for the more than $3 million of First Judicial District funds that were funneled to one of his closest friends. And I had the guts to challenge him on his disastrous handling of Pennsylvania’s worst judicial scandal and a tragic injustice that will forever be known as the “Kids for Cash” disaster.

There is but one word to say here: damn. Apparently McCaffery wasn’t afraid to air all of his many grievances against Castille in public considering the fact that the chief justice had already hung out McCaffery’s dirty XXX-rated laundry for all the world to see. It’s understandable that this judicial porn purveyor wanted to defend himself, but a statement like this one isn’t doing much for him in terms of getting away from Castille’s accusation that McCaffery’s actions have undermined the court system.

There’s still time left before Castille is forced into retirement, and we imagine that after reading McCaffery’s statement, he’ll come out swinging — but perhaps a spanking would be more appropriate here.

(Flip to the next page to see Justice Seamus McCaffery’s full statement.)

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