Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane plans to announce Tuesday at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia a team of special prosecutors to further review any pornographic and offensive emails sent or received on government servers, raising questions among criminal and ethics attorneys about the scope of such an investigation and her ability to direct it with a suspended law license.

Kane said last week, in a response to a Pennsylvania Senate committee report recommending a full hearing on her removal from office, that she is hiring the prosecutors to “go through every public email account trafficking this filth and track down every public server over which it was circulated.”

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