HARRISBURG -- The Pennsylvania Supreme Court will again review emails of a justice, emails the state attorney general calls pornographic and racist.
Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane says the Supreme Court justice sent and received these emails.
Kane, a Scranton native, says her knowledge of these emails is the reason behind what she claims is a plot to drive her from office.
Last year, some pornographic emails led one state Supreme Court justice to step down.
This time, the court is looking at the emails of another justice.
A statement from the state's highest court, reads, "The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania aspires to maintain the highest ethical standards and the trust and confidence of the public at large."
At issue is whether emails that Supreme Court Justice J. Michael Eakin reportedly sent and received were obscene, sexist, and racist.
Just days before Kane was hit with a second round of perjury charges in Montgomery County, she said she handed over to the judicial conduct board 1,500 emails Eakin had shared with workers in the attorney general's office.
"Your criminal justice system that you think you have and that you think you deserve is not working," said Kane on October 1.
At the time, Kane said one of the emails made light of wife beating.
The Philadelphia Daily News reported that Justice Eakin traded these emails using a private account under the name, "John Smith."
The Judicial Conduct Board looked at some of Eakin's emails last year during a review that led Supreme Court Justice Seamus McCaffrey to step down.
At the time, the board did not find any evidence of misconduct involving Eakin.
In its latest statement, the Supreme Court says the board did not have access to the emails Kane recently turned over.
A spokesman for Justice Eakin and the State Supreme court says the justice is cooperating fully with the investigation.