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PMC Partnership with Temple Law Students Provides Insight into Bail Reform through Observations of Philadelphia’s Early Bail Review Hearings

Monday, June 3, 2024

By LUCY RESAR Published June 3, 2024. The Philadelphia Bar Reporter On any given day, more than 400,000 people are detained behind bars awaiting trial across the country. In Philadelphia, three in every ten arrested individuals are held pre-trial solely for their inability to afford bail. Despite...

DePaul seventh-grade students are learning so much from our sessions with Pennsylvanians for Modern Courts! They are pictured here with Deborah Gross Kurtz, CEO of PMC (left), and Sheryl Axelrod, Esq., Founder of the Axelrod Firm, P.C. (right).

New IMS Partnership Sparks Student Interest in Civics

Monday, March 4, 2024

Independence Mission Schools News Independence Mission Schools has recently partnered with the legal nonprofit Pennsylvanians for Modern Courts (PMC) to provide an 8-week civics education program for middle school students—St. Raymond of Penafort, SS. Cyril & Philomena, St. Frances Cabrini, Our...

Understanding Pennsylvania's Judicial System

Wednesday, February 7, 2024

StudioC70 Asks the Expert about PA’s Judicial System Deborah Gross, President & CEO of Pennsylvanians for Modern Courts Our recent conversation with Deborah Gross, President and CEO of Pennsylvanians for Modern Courts, highlights the importance of judicial elections, the case for merit selection of...

Democrat Daniel D. McCaffery and Republican Carolyn Carluccio are running for a seat on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. Electing judges is a bad idea, writes Robert C. Heim. AP File, Campaign Handout

Electing judges is a bad idea. There is a much better system.

Tuesday, January 30, 2024

By ROBERT C. HEIM Published November 2, 2023 The Philadelphia Inquirer On Tuesday, Pennsylvania voters will elect a justice to fill a vacancy on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. For many, this will be a hard decision, because they will know little about what the candidates stand for. Unlike people...

Pennsylvania's judicial elections matter. Here's why.

Sunday, August 20, 2023

By PETER HALL Penn Capital-Star Between the intense campaigns of the midterm and presidential elections, statewide races for Pennsylvania’s appeals courts tend to take a back seat to mayoral and other local elections. In the wake of sweeping decisions on abortion and affirmative action from the U.S...