Posted on 11/04/2025 7:27:12 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Judicial Democrat partisanship has resulted in a decade of leftist decisions on congressional redistricting, election integrity, and abortion.
You may know Pennsylvania’s Democrat Supreme Court justices by the misery they inflicted during Covid. Former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf declared a state of emergency on March 6, 2020, and locked down the state in response to the Covid pandemic. Then a Republican-led legislative resolution passed that would have returned the state to normal operations. The state Supreme Court invalidated the resolution on July 1, and because of that decision, the devastating shutdown lasted until June 2021.
Now the judges who made that happen want Pennsylvanians to vote to keep their power.
A Republican campaign to “vote no” Tuesday on all statewide judges on the ballot aims to flip the state Supreme Court’s far-left slant by denying activist judges a 10-year retention. They are Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justices Kevin M. Dougherty, 63; David Wecht, 63; and Christine Donohue, 72. All are already old enough to start drawing Social Security retirement benefits. If retained, Donohue will be 82 for her next retention vote. Currently the state Supreme Court has seven judges: five Democrats and two Republicans.
Republicans also urge voters to say no to the 10-year retention of Judge Michael H. Wojcik, 61, for the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court, and Alice Beck Dubow, 66, in the Superior Court.
In Pennsylvania, judges run with party affiliation for their first 10-year term. After that, they stop listing party affiliation on ballots, and voters are simply asked if the judge should be retained, voting yes or no.
“Retention is a nonpolitical method of reelecting Pennsylvania judges and is intended to be politically neutral as they do not require judges to engage in campaigning against other candidates,” the Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts...
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And the most significant non decision is that the Act 77 mail in ballot law has a severability clause that states if one provision is invalid the entire law is invalid. Act 77 has been changed so much that you have to call it Act 999.
Normal LATEST retirement age for Article III federal judges is 70...
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