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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.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/15/us/politics/pennsylvania-republicans.html
TeamPooka
(24,262 posts)scarletwoman
(31,893 posts)TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)We haven't always lived up to that ideal, but we haven't, so far, so boldly destroyed it.
Remember Franklin's words so often repeated last week.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,467 posts)The Radical Republican Reich is now going to concentrate on consolidating power at state level and depend on Moscow Mitch's appointees in the judiciary to let it stand.
Thekaspervote
(32,803 posts)Wont continue to uphold the constitution