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  • For First Time, Pennsylvania Voters Oust a Supreme Court Justice

    11/09/2005 1:58:41 AM PST · by Kaslin · 77 replies · 4,107+ views
    AP News ^ | November 9, 2005 | Peter Jackson
    PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Pennsylvanians have denied a state Supreme Court justice a second term, a sign of the public's anger at lawmakers for pushing through a pay raise last summer. A second justice won another term only narrowly. Justice Russell M. Nigro, who got 49 percent of vote Tuesday, was the first statewide judge to be turned out of office in a yes-or-no retention election in the 36 years such elections have been held. A Democrat, Nigro received strong support in and around his native Philadelphia but was overwhelmed by lopsided margins in south-central and southwestern regions of the state,...