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Related: About this forumPennsylvania G.O.P.'s Push for More Power Over Judiciary Raises Alarms
When the Pennsylvania Supreme Court unanimously rejected a Republican attempt to overturn the states election results in November, Justice David N. Wecht issued his own pointed rebuke, condemning the G.O.P. effort as futile and a dangerous game.
It is not our role to lend legitimacy to such transparent and untimely efforts to subvert the will of Pennsylvania voters, wrote Justice Wecht, a Democrat who was elected to a 10-year term on the bench in 2016. Courts should not decide elections when the will of the voters is clear.
Now Pennsylvania Republicans have a plan to make it less likely that judges like Justice Wecht get in their way.
G.O.P. legislators, dozens of whom supported overturning the states election results to aid former President Donald J. Trump, are moving to change the entire way that judges are selected in Pennsylvania, in a gambit that could tip the scales of the judiciary to favor their party, or at least elect judges more inclined to embrace Republican election challenges.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/15/us/politics/judicial-gerrymandering-pennsylvania.html
Harker
(14,933 posts)Irish_Dem
(57,430 posts)So now the GOP will go after them.
gab13by13
(25,232 posts)is that Pa. is gerrymandered and they are working to redistrict even more. Luckily because of the lateness of the census they may be force to wait a while.