Pennsylvania GOP Pushes for More Power Over Judiciary

“When the Pennsylvania Supreme Court unanimously rejected a Republican attempt to overturn the state’s 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,'” the New York Times reports.

“Now Pennsylvania Republicans have a plan to make it less likely that judges like Justice Wecht get in their way.”

“GOP legislators, dozens of whom supported overturning the state’s 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.”