The Pennsylvania saga on removing elected public officials through the backdoor dealings of attorney discipline continues

Now, I do not condone public corruption, especially by prosecutors.  At all.

But, what is happening in Pennsylvania is completely bizarre.

While Pennsylvania is suspending, disbarring and denying reinstatement of attorneys left and right for the biggest sin of all - criticizing the judiciary - it is really lenient (usually) on attorneys working for the state and committing misconduct.

For example, Pennsylvania, having no statute of limitations on attorney discipline, still did not disbar attorney Ronald Castille, former Philadelphia DA whose misconduct, and misconduct of his staff (of which he had to be aware) was described in detail in the 2016 U.S. Supreme Court case Williams v Pennsylvania:

• obtaining death penalty by fraud, withholding Brady material and suborning perjury from a prosecution witness;
• getting elected to the bench on the basis of that fraudulent death penalty sentence, and then
• blocking habeas corpus relief for the condemned prisoner as a judge in the same case where Ronald Castille was a prosecutor, and blasting the condemned prisoner's attorneys for trying to defend him.

And, Pennsylvania was not in any hurry to disbar Judge Marc Ciavarella for selling kids, for million-dollar bribes into kiddie prisons.

And, Pennsylvania was in no hurry to suspend the law license of Philadelphia DA Seth Williams, even after he admitted "not reporting" gifts given to him while he was already a public prosecutor.

It only suspended his law license "on agreement" when he was federally indicted for corruption - but remained in office, like Pennsylvania former AG Kathleen Kane did, making a second precedent of a lawyer with a suspended license running a law office.

A lawsuit has now been filed by people with no standing to do that (a defense attorney and Seth Williams' predecessor as a DA) to oust Seth Williams from office.

Yet, Seth Williams is a public official, and the only way he can be ousted is through impeachment.

So, the Pennsylvania saga of playing with law licenses of public officials continues.

Let's see what the court ruling will be on the lawsuit.

I will continue to monitor this bizarre case.

Stay tuned.