When the Pennsylvania Supreme Court issued its progress report on its response to reform proposals made by the Interbranch Commission on Juvenile Justice in the wake of the Luzerne County Courthouse scandal, it was pretty thin when it came to judicial ethics and the judicial conduct system.
That’s shocking because much of the ICJJ’s work focused on the failure of the judicial conduct system to do anything with a detailed complaint filed against former Luzerne County Judge Michael T. Conahan. After all, it was a lack of judicial ethics and the complete failure of the judicial conduct system that allowed the corruption in the Luzerne County Courthouse to fester. The ICJJ’s work was instrumental in bringing much of that to light.
