ABC27 in Harrisburg ran a story last night titled "Political Contributions to Statewide Justices Questioned," focusing on the recent American Judicature Society finding a significant overlap between contributors to Pennsylvania Supreme Court justices' election campaigns and lawyers, litigants, and law firms later appearing before those justices.
 
PMC's Lynn Marks was featured in the story explaining that this creates the perception that justice is for sale.  She urged that it was time to get judges out of the fundraising business by enacting a Merit Selection system for the appellate courts.
 
Supreme Court Justice Michael Eakin argued that Merit Selection does not take politics out of the selection process.  Marks acknowledged that there is no perfect system but countered that under Merit Selection, people don't have to worry whether their opponents or the opposing attorneys in court have contributed to the election campaigns of the presiding judges and justices.