PA Supreme Court Nominee Under Fire for Racially Insensitive Email

Two of newly elected Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf's nominees for the Pennsylvania Supreme Court are under fire, one for allegedly forwarding a racially insensitive email, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports. Centre County Judge Thomas K. Kistler allegedly forwarded an email showing a black man and a black woman during a visit in a prison with the caption "Merry Christmas From the Johnsons." You can see the meme here. Kistler told the newspaper, "that if he did send the e-mail, it was not meant to mock black people but to convey that 'Christmas goes on, even for the people we put in jail.'"

Wolf's other nominee, Ken Gormley, a dean at the Duquesne University School of Law in Pittsburgh, was the subject of a harassment complaint in 2006, the Inquirer reports.