The following year, Eakin emailed Baxter and four other people a joke about a woman who complains to her doctor that her husband "beats me to a pulp" when he comes home drunk. The doctor advises her to swish sweet tea in her mouth and not to swallow until her husband is asleep. The punchline from the doctor: "You see how much keeping your mouth shut helps?"
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This is a tasteless, nasty and stupid joke in any setting, if told by anyone. But Eakin is a PA supreme court justice. They are called upon to fairly judge the matters brought before them, including intimate partner murders and abuse of all kinds. No question he should be gone, since there are other similar tropes throughout this material. Only the victim identities change. He is an Omni-bigot.
The REAL issue here is not Eakin, that ought to be settled as of now. No, the real question is why in the hell has it taken so long for someone to DO something? How long has the Judicial Ethics board known about this? How long have his fellow supremes known about this?
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This is a tasteless, nasty and stupid joke in any setting, if told by anyone. But Eakin is a PA supreme court justice. They are called upon to fairly judge the matters brought before them, including intimate partner murders and abuse of all kinds. No question he should be gone, since there are other similar tropes throughout this material. Only the victim identities change. He is an Omni-bigot.
The REAL issue here is not Eakin, that ought to be settled as of now. No, the real question is why in the hell has it taken so long for someone to DO something? How long has the Judicial Ethics board known about this? How long have his fellow supremes known about this?