John Quigley's Email Shocks the Conscience
We knew, of course, it had to be bad, but the e-mail sent by John Quigley to his fractivist allies in the “environmental community” shocks the conscience.
The e-mail that got DEP Secretary John Quigley fired is now out and it’s far worse than anything I had imagined. This man-child had no business being in position of authority on the smallest board in the tiniest community in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, let alone serving as the Secretary of the Department of Environmental Protection. He not only lacked the temperament for such a role, but also demonstrated a complete lack of judgment. His actions were appalling for someone with his level of responsibility and “shock the conscience.”
A 1937 Supreme Court case established a “shocks the conscience” legal standard, defining it as something that offends “those canons of decency and fairness which express the notions of justice of English-speaking peoples.” What John Quigley did is hardly likely to end up in court, but his e-mail certainly offends the canons of fairness and decency. That much is evident by anyone’s reading of the thing:
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