On Thursday morning, the second day of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s first-ever livestreamed oral arguments session, several justices appeared skeptical of the State Ethics Commission’s position that a public official could be required to pay restitution for salary his son was paid in a job he acquired through nepotism.

Several justices pressed the commission’s assistant counsel, Jeffery Frankenburger, to explain how restitution could be proper where the public official himself did not derive any financial benefit from helping to get his son a job.