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Pennsylvania judge allegedly sent racist Christmas email
Source: Associated Press
Pennsylvania judge allegedly sent racist Christmas email
Associated Press in Harrisburg. Pennsylvania
Friday 20 February 2015 19.06 GMT
A white county judge nominated for Pennsylvania’s highest court apparently forwarded a racially insensitive email showing a black couple talking through glass via a jailhouse phone under the heading: “Merry Christmas from the Johnsons.”
Centre County judge Thomas Kistler told The Philadelphia Inquirer in a story posted on Friday he did not remember sending the email in December 2013 to more than 20 people in the criminal justice system.
Kistler did not deny sending the image, which is readily available online, but told the paper if he did, it would not have been intended to mock black people. He said the message would have been: “Christmas goes on, even for the people we put in jail.”
Senate leaders recommended Kistler, a Republican, and Duquesne Law School dean Ken Gormley, a Democrat, to fill two high court vacancies, including one created by the abrupt resignation of Justice Seamus McCaffery over distribution of pornographic emails last year.
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Associated Press in Harrisburg. Pennsylvania
Friday 20 February 2015 19.06 GMT
A white county judge nominated for Pennsylvania’s highest court apparently forwarded a racially insensitive email showing a black couple talking through glass via a jailhouse phone under the heading: “Merry Christmas from the Johnsons.”
Centre County judge Thomas Kistler told The Philadelphia Inquirer in a story posted on Friday he did not remember sending the email in December 2013 to more than 20 people in the criminal justice system.
Kistler did not deny sending the image, which is readily available online, but told the paper if he did, it would not have been intended to mock black people. He said the message would have been: “Christmas goes on, even for the people we put in jail.”
Senate leaders recommended Kistler, a Republican, and Duquesne Law School dean Ken Gormley, a Democrat, to fill two high court vacancies, including one created by the abrupt resignation of Justice Seamus McCaffery over distribution of pornographic emails last year.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/20/pennsylvania-judge-racist-christmas-email
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