The Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s civil war—and our immediate legal crisis—came to an end when former Justice Seamus McCaffery decided to retire, but the lingering questions about the competency of the Judicial Conduct Board remain.
When asked by Legal reporter P.J. D’Annunzio about the JCB’s role in investigating allegations of McCaffery’s interference in the Philadelphia court system, outgoing Administrative Judge John W. Herron had this to say: “I was interviewed several times over several years by both the JCB and FBI. Perhaps they [the JCB] are understaffed and underfunded, but it appears that they were too slow and ineffective with regards to the investigation into a justice of the Supreme Court.”
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