Clearing Things Up — This is Just About the Appellate Courts
Yesterday’s Metro featured an article about the effort to bring Merit Selection to Pennsylvania. While the article identified some of the problems of judicial elections and some of the benefits of...
View ArticleLooking Ahead to the 2009 Judicial Elections
2009 is a judicial election year in Pennsylvania. It will be a busy one here, as Pennsylvanians will be electing a Supreme Court Justice, three Superior Court judges, two Commonwealth Court judges,...
View ArticleHard on the Voters
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette today explores whether voters can sort through and make decisions about nine candidates running for the Superior Court, one of two intermediate appellate courts in...
View ArticleRunoff election for 4th Superior Court seat? One candidate will decide.
The Associated Press reported that a runoff election for the 4th seat on the state Superior Court could begin this coming Monday, unless one of the three trailing candidates, Temp Smith, waives his...
View ArticleSuperior Court Vote Recount is On
Secretary of the Commonwealth Pedro Cortes announced today that the first ever statewide vote recount will be held to determine the winners for Superior Court. According to a press release available on...
View ArticleRepublican State Committee Announces Judicial Endorsements
At a February 12th meeting in Harrisburg, Republican State Committee members endorsed candidates for open seats on two statewide appellate court. Bucks County lawyer Anne Covey was the GOP committee’s...
View ArticleResults from the Judicial Primary
Tuesday’s primary election included a number of judicial races. In terms of statewide seats, there were openings on the Superior and Commonwealth Courts. For the Superior Court seat, Harrisburg lawyer...
View ArticleCampaign Contributions: Hot Issue In Pennsylvania Superior Court Race
In the last weeks of the Pennsylvania judicial election season, campaign contributions in the Superior Court race are becoming the focus of more scrutiny. A big donation from The Committee for a...
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