Hurri-Kane Kathleen continues to wreak havoc on Pennsylvania.
One thing is certain, if Attorney General Kathleen Kane goes down in the conflagration that has surrounded her outrageous first term, she's not going alone.
Kane currently is facing criminal charges that she lied to a grand jury about leaking confidential information, then tried to cover it up. She denies it, and instead has woven a story that she is being targeted because of a trove of sexist, racist and homophobic emails she turned up when - as she promised during her successful election campaign - she investigated her predecessor's handling of the Jerry Sandusky investigation. Of course, that predecessor was Gov. Tom Corbett. He's now the former governor, at least in part because of some of questions Kane raised about the Sandusky probe. Her review turned up no wrongdoing or serious foot-dragging. Unfortunately, that was too late for Corbett, who was shown the door by Democrat Tom Wolf.
Kane's tactics did not sit well with many in the Attorney General's office, and she's been warring with several of them ever since. Most notable is her mano a mano with Frank Fina, a former top prosecutor who now works for Philly D.A. Seth Williams.
Kane's weapon of choice is the cache of pornographic email found on computers in the A.G.'s office. They've already cost one Supreme Court Justice his job. Seamus McCafffery stepped down after he was linked to the emails. A long list of prosecutors either lost their jobs or were reprimanded because of them.
Now another high court justice is taking heat because of his ties to receiving and sending the inappropriate emails.
Justice J. Michael Eakin isn't saying much about the emails linked to an account he set up. But a lot of other people are, and they are questioning what the hell Eakin was thinking when he apparently took part in this frat boy act.
I don't know if Kathleen Kane is going to survive this. Or Eakin either for that matter.
But if nothing else, Kane has exposed a really ugly side to justice in Pennsylvania. These people are the ones who investigate, prosecute, and sit in judgment on criminal cases in this state.
You wonder about that word - judgment.
And if any of those associated with this tawdry story ever used it.
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