Pricey Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Battle May Have 2024 Election Implications

The left-leaning Pennsylvania Supreme Court has decided some politically charged issues in recent years. Back in 2012, the state Supreme Court ruled that requiring voters to provide identification before voting was unconstitutional. There was the controversial approval of last-minute changes to the state’s Congressional district map in a 2018 gerrymandering case.

In 2020, a state Supreme Court decision required ballots received up to three days after the election to be counted unless a ballot is clearly postmarked after 8 p.m. on Election Day. Other election-related cases have worked through the state’s courts, including questions about the legitimacy of ballot drop-boxes and questions about which mail-in ballots should be counted when the sender fails to sign and date the exterior envelope.

The finer details and larger implications of the election process have been litigated regularly in lower courts in the lead up to the 2024 election, and it is not a stretch to think that some of these issues will again land in the seven sets of hands of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.

Currently, the court has four Democratic justices, two Republicans, and one vacancy. Former Democratic Chief Justice Max Baer died in September 2022, just months shy of his birthday and reaching the mandatory retirement age of 75.

The salary for a Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice is $244,793, but millions of dollars have been spent on the race to fill the seat. Voters will decide Tuesday, Nov. 7, in Pennsylvania’s general election.

Off-year elections get less attention and fewer voters than presidential years, and because of this, a small percentage of motivated, organized voters can move candidates of their choice into positions of power. That could happen this year in Pennsylvania where, despite a campaign of attack ads, voters are not sure who the candidates are. According to a Franklin and Marshall College’s October poll, more than seven in 10 registered voters said they don’t know enough about the candidates to form an opinion about them.

Republican candidate Carolyn Carluccio, currently the president judge of the Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas, has spent just over $742,000 and of that, $25,000 was a loan Ms. Carluccio made to her own campaign. In her most recent campaign finance documents Ms. Carluccio also reported just over $2.2 million of in-kind donations spent on her behalf by Commonwealth Leaders Fund PAC to promote her campaign with text messages, digital advertising, commercial production and media buys. The Commonwealth Leaders Fund is mostly funded by Pennsylvania billionaire Jeff Yass, co-founder of investment company Susquehanna International Group.

Ms. Carluccio started her career as a Federal Assistant U.S. Attorney, prosecuting large-scale drug dealers, bank robbers, and money launderers. Her work earned her recognition from the United States Secret Service, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, according to her campaign website. She was the first female chief public defender for Montgomery County, where she managed a team of 35 staff and attorneys. Ms. Carluccio also worked as Chief Deputy Solicitor for Montgomery County and as the acting director of Human Resources.

For the past 14 years, she has been a Court of Common Pleas Judge. She was elected president of the 2,000-member Montgomery Bar Association, and last year, she was unanimously chosen by her peers to serve as the court’s first female presidential judge in Montgomery County.

Democratic candidate Daniel McCaffery, currently a Superior Court judge, has spent $2 million. Mr. McCaffery has received large donations from many left-leaning groups, including $45,000 from the Pennsylvania State Education Association, the state arm of the powerful National Education Association, plus $15,000 from the AFT Pennsylvania Committee to Support Public Education, another teacher’s union.

McCaffrey is running as being an abortionist, like most Dems. He also was a prosecutor, which probably also appeals to women since the modern liberal woman wants the state to solve all of her problems. I hope the SOB loses. I know people who had cases in from of Judge Carolyn Carluccio, the Republican nominee, who had nothing but good things to say about her. She had to scrub her pro-life posts recently to run for SCOPa.

Time to talk again...
I was born with a fairness gene.
This crap going on.. They trying to stop. Trump... By unscrupulous criminal means, And driving me up the proverbial wall.

I love my country. My father served in WWII, landing on Normandy and spending the next year trekking across cold wet Europe..
My husband served 6/years. My brother served 4 years. Two of my cousins were killed fighting over there.... As an introduction.

The people we see on TV.. Announcers, or commentators. Family and friends.. Let me summarize, and then maybe explain.

Christians.. By that I mean those who have committed to Jesus and trying to live upright and in touch with their conscience.
They are more apt to be a Trump voter. How would I know that? It’s the difference between right and wrong. No matter what minor faults the left like to hone in on.. What matters, what makes a difference.. What will save our nation,.. Trump is on the right side.

When I hear them go off in critical Trump talk.. I make the conclusion they hate Trump.. And they have a different master than the One I serve. They don’t know what is right and what is dead wrong. Their master just keeps them in ugly hate.. They can’t see past that.

Do I believe God sent Trump to save our nation?, I do. Why would anyone volunteer for this? They have every intention of going all the way till he is gone and we are enslaved. They have all of the government in their control.. The judges.. The courts.. Their lies.. Their lawless acts.. God has to come thru for us.

When I prayed for one of my sons some years ago.. I let it all go.. I said I couldn’t wait 30 years for this prayer to be answered.. This is not a request.. It’s a demand.. And I read every promise in the Bible, outloud.
If we get serious, I think God puts a red tag on those prayers.. And we need God Now!

I am not finished. But bedtime and tomorrow is another day.. We have to faith this thru to a successful conclusion.

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