Despite a request at a press conference to be allowed to release emails discovered by her office—emails she says are pornographic and racist—state Attorney General Kathleen Kane has argued in a Commonwealth Court appeal they are not public records under the state Right-to-Know Law.

In Harrisburg last week, Kane publicly called on Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas Judge William R. Carpenter to allow her to release the emails. She said her hands were tied by a grand-jury protective order.

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