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The Wrong Way to Reform Judicial Elections

Friday, February 7, 2020

The Pennsylvania legislature is considering a bill that would undermine the state's supreme court. By PATRICK BERRY Brennan Center for Justice In states around the country, judicial independence has been under attack. Last year, at least 25 states considered legislation that would have politicized...

2019 Pennsylvania Election Results

Wednesday, November 6, 2019

The results of the 2019 Pennsylvania General Election are in. Click here to view the results statewide, and in your county.

No system for choosing judges is perfect, but a hybrid system would be better

Sunday, September 15, 2019

Maida R. Milone/Special to Lancaster Newspaper - Sep 15, 2019 Like many of you, I have not spent most of my adult life thinking about how we select our judges in Pennsylvania. I have fumbled in the voting booth like everyone else trying to figure out who these candidates for judge are and how I...

PBA Recommends Retention for All Four Appellate Judges on November Ballot

Tuesday, September 3, 2019

By ZACK NEEDLES The Legal Intelligencer Commonwealth Court Judges P. Kevin Brobson and Patricia A. McCullough and Superior Court Judges Anne E. Lazarus and Judith Ference Olson all received "recommended" ratings. The Pennsylvania Bar Association has recommended for retention the two Commonwealth...

New Book Traces How Partisanship Has Reshaped The Supreme Court

Thursday, July 11, 2019

Chief Washington correspondent for The New York Times, Hulse has covered legislative and judicial events for more than three decades. His important new book is a deeply reported account of the struggle over the Supreme Court seat left vacant by Antonin Scalia’s death in February 2016. Drawing on...