Clearing Things Up — This is Just About the Appellate Courts
Yesterday’s Metro featured an article about the effort to bring Merit Selection to Pennsylvania. While the article identified some of the problems of judicial elections and some of the benefits of...
View ArticleLooking Ahead to the 2009 Judicial Elections
2009 is a judicial election year in Pennsylvania. It will be a busy one here, as Pennsylvanians will be electing a Supreme Court Justice, three Superior Court judges, two Commonwealth Court judges,...
View ArticleRepublican State Committee Announces Judicial Endorsements
At a February 12th meeting in Harrisburg, Republican State Committee members endorsed candidates for open seats on two statewide appellate court. Bucks County lawyer Anne Covey was the GOP committee’s...
View ArticlePolitics in the Judicial Primary
Recently, an AP article looked at various positions at stake in Tuesday’s primary election, making note of difference in candidates, issues, endorsements, and money that has been raised. Sadly,...
View ArticleResults from the Judicial Primary
Tuesday’s primary election included a number of judicial races. In terms of statewide seats, there were openings on the Superior and Commonwealth Courts. For the Superior Court seat, Harrisburg lawyer...
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