“Just one more week and this will all be over. Except for the stink of Judge Brobson’s disgraceful conduct — that will linger for a long while.”
PENNSYLVANIA — Judge Kevin Brobson — an unethical political opportunist who does not deserve a seat on the highest court in Pennsylvania — is under heavy fire for his “disgraceful” attack ad against Judge Maria McLaughlin. As the Philadelphia Inquirer reported, the Pennsylvania Bar Association rebuked Brobson for “violating standards of accuracy and integrity in campaign advertising that both campaigns agreed to follow.”
Now he’s taking hits from the legal community at large, as the widely-read Above the Law blog took him to task for his “filthy mischaracterization” of Judge McLaughlin’s record.
Above The Law: PA Judge Dinged By State Bar For Filthy Ad Campaign
By Liz Dye
Judges, they’re just like us. Which is to say, they are also assholes a lot of the time. Witness one Kevin Brobson, the president judge of Pennsylvania’s Commonwealth Court who is currently running to fill a vacant seat on the state’s Supreme Court.
As reported by the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s Judicial Campaign Advertising Committee just sent the Republican judge a letter demanding that he retract an ad attacking his Democratic opponent, Superior Court Judge Maria McLaughlin for a 2017 panel decision in which she concurred that a defendant was entitled to withdraw his guilty plea based on ineffective assistance of counsel. (Professing profound remorse, the defendant pleaded guilty to the same charges in 2020 and is now in jail.)
Or, as Judge Brobson put it in his ad, McLaughlin “chose to void the guilty plea of a drunk driver who admitted to killing a pregnant woman and her unborn child.”
Which is a pretty filthy mischaracterization, particularly coming from a member of the judiciary. Hence the letter from the Committee reprimanding Brobson for violating the Judicial Campaign Advertising Guidelines’ edict that “Factual claims regarding the qualifications or performance of candidates or their opponents should not omit or obscure information necessary to prevent misinterpretation or distortion.”
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The election is next Tuesday, November 2. Just one more week and this will all be over. Except for the stink of Judge Brobson’s disgraceful conduct — that will linger for a long while.
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