In 1993 , McCaffery won election to Municipal Court in Philadelphia . With support from members of the city council , he developed Eagles Court in 1998 in response to a 1997 Monday Night Football game between the Eagles and the San Francisco 49ers . With over 60 fistfights reported at the nationally televised game , stadium violence became an embarrassment for the city . McCaffery presided over the court , which was convened in the basement of Veterans Stadium , and handed out fines or jail time to fans arrested during games . Prior to protests at the 2000 Republican National Convention in Philadelphia , McCaffery announced a plan for the preventive detention of protesters . Because of this , defense attorneys asked him to recuse himself from trials involving the protests , but he refused , without hearing the arguments . He was elected to the Superior Court in 2003 and successfully ran for the Supreme Court in 2007 , where he was a landslide winner attaining over 2 million votes statewide
2000 Republican National Convention
2000 Republican National Convention
Seamus McCaffery