Posted on 11/05/2025 7:12:58 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
Pennsylvania voters have rejected a Republican effort to remove three Democrats from the state Supreme Court.
The stakes of Tuesday’s election were high: Had Pennsylvanians voted to remove the justices, the court would have gone from a seven-member Democratic majority to a four-member group with a complete ideological split. The three justices’ vacant seats would not have been filled until another election at the end of 2027.
Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court regularly holds these kinds of votes for its justices. The justices are first selected in partisan elections, but at the end of their 10-year terms, voters then decide whether to extend them for another 10 in nonpartisan elections. Once in, justices rarely get voted out, but Republicans campaigned hard this year in the hopes of changing the balance of power on the state’s court.
But if the justices are booted, the seats become open again, and voters once again decide who will be placed on the court during the next election. The court currently has seven justices, two of whom are Republicans. So if the three justices on Tuesday’s ballot had been ousted, and if Republicans had then successfully replaced them with their own judges during the next election, then went on to lose those three seats, the GOP would have flipped the court.
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The retention elections cannot be compared to other elections as the candidates do not display party affiliation. Again this is the republicans under Pileggi i think that made up these rules. I have yet to compare to see if the republican areas of the state actually voted to retain these judges. That will be a significant finding. I’m not sure if the published results now in Delco allow for that analysis.
Plus we have lost statewide before and in the case of the prior AG race Republicans did split out and crossed to vote for the dem AG at about 2-3 percent (4-6 net %). I call these republicans international communists. Abortion was the reason for the AG but that doesn’t matter. When you get so called republicans voting for non conservative ideals it means they don’t have conservative ideals.
So many of our citizens have gone dark after years of brain washing.
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^^^THIS^^^
Election fraud is still alive and well. 🙄
I just mentioned in another thread that I saw no GOP advertisements this cycle. I had to actively search who and what to vote for. Yea, this wasn’t good. Do people think Trump can do it all? Really, I want nothing to do with politics but that would be, to me and my family’s, detriment.
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