The court, in its Monday order, essentially affirmed an August . 25 Office of Disciplinary Counsel argument that Kane faces an unresolvable conflict of interest in trying to prosecute others when she herself is facing criminal charges. But asked to explain Kane’s sudden shift, Ardo said it was the volume of requests Kane had received from reporters and others for the information under the state’s right-to-know law.

The board wanted Kane out of power.

According to Ardo, it means that Kane actually can continue to participate in the office’s legal actions through that time.

Beleaguered Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane is still in the legal business, technically, until October . 21. She issued a statement yesterday claiming that she would not step down because, despite being stripped of the ability to be the state’s chief prosecutor, she can continue to fight “the culture of misogyny and racially/religiously offensive behavior that has permeated law enforcement and members of the judiciary in this commonwealth for years”.

Like Kathleen Kane, Preate was indicted during his term as Attorney General. Kane’s private lawyers haven’t said whether they’ll challenge or appeal the suspension.

“I don’t think anyone will notice anything different with the operation of the office”, says attorney Mike Gianetta of Scott Township.

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf, himself a Democrat, has even called for Kane’s resignation.

In the meantime, Kane has ordered the release of thousands more pornographic emails discovered by her office to involve current and former employees there, Ardo said.

“She will release them all”, Ardo said.

This leaves the office of the state attorney general in limbo, since Pennsylvania’s constitution requires that the attorney general have a law license, and is prompting the state senate to research “a never used constitutional provision that allows a two-thirds vote of senators to remove” her from office. But on Monday, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania suspended Kane’s license to practice law, creating a odd legal conundrum in which the state’s highest government lawyer may no longer be credentialed to fulfill her public duty. “The Supreme Court order is being reviewed, we have not had time to go through the fine points of its meaning”. She also has maintained that releasing the emails will aid her defense against the criminal charges.

She has already released two troves of pornographic emails that were sent or received by 10 former members of the office who worked under her Republican predecessors, including several who were outspoken critics of hers. The subjects of the spying included former state supreme court Justice Ronald D. Castille, who authorized the leak investigation.