Presidential election hostilities may fuel fight to remake Democratic-majority Pennsylvania Supreme

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Presidential election hostilities may fuel fight to remake Democratic-majority Pennsylvania Supreme Court


The angst, anger and hostility over Pennsylvania’s presidential election result will flow past New Year’s Day.

Republicans who control the state Legislature could use the first weeks of 2021 to fast-track a constitutional amendment that would remake the Democratic-majority state Supreme Court after Republicans and President Donald Trump accused the court of acting illegally or, baselessly, conspiring to steal the election.



As early as May 18′s primary election, Pennsylvania voters could be asked to overhaul how they elect state Supreme Court justices and appellate court judges. The amendment would end the practice of judicial candidates running for 10-year terms in statewide elections and, instead, sort those seats into districts equal in population where candidates must live.

It would seem to guarantee a new set of faces that Republican lawmakers contend will provide better geographical diversity — and better court rulings.

Such a change almost assuredly would cut short the high court’s 5-2 Democratic majority that might otherwise last well beyond 2030.

https://www.mcall.com/news/pennsylvania/mc-nws-pa-supreme-court-20201224-pt754znw4jc7nde4z6ry4yhamy-story.html

[Dawson Leery]

1. Typical conservatives...rig the rules everytime they don't get their way.

[StClone]

2. That is what Republican Gerrymandering can do

Cramming ‘Dem garbage’ in a few districts they have Republican rule. Michigan Supreme Courts judge elections are Statewide and not subject to gerrymandering, I believe.

[bullimiami]

3. you whining bastards lost because you are full of shit.

how about fixing that instead of trying even harder to rig the system?

[Thekaspervote]

4. PA is still pretty blue, having voted only once for a gop prez in the last 24 yrs

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Amendments to constitutions even state ones are not an easy sell.

They will try, doesn’t mean they will succeed

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

5. Damn it. I read that headline wrong. With Rs running so much in this state, I'd forgotten

that Dems we already the majority in the state SC.

Fck!