I’ll bet no more than one in a hundred people could name a Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice. I know I couldn’t before last Sunday, when the New York Times editorialized against Chief Justice Ronald Castille. The Times pointed out that Mr. Castille accepts gifts from attorneys and other plaintiffs with cases before the Supreme Court. The Chief Justice noted that he is doing nothing illegal, since he reports all of his gifts. In Pennsylvania that is enough.
Who made up such a rule? Why, none other than the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. The Pennsylvania court policy violates the ABA’s “Model Rules of Judicial Conduct,” but evidently in Pennsylvania we don’t need no stinkin’ rules of judicial conduct.
When legislative or executive personnel are charged with corruption, they are brought before the judiciary. What do we do when the judiciary is corrupt?
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