Pennsylvania voters will settle four statewide judicial contests in Tuesday’s election, filling an open seat on the state Supreme Court and three seats on two lower appellate courts.
Pennsylvania voters will settle four statewide judicial contests in Tuesday's election, filling an open seat on the state Supreme Court — which has played a hugely consequential role in election-related cases in the presidential battleground state — and three seats on two lower appellate courts.
Millions have come from three sources in particular: a group that is a conduit for money from billionaire Jeffrey Yass, one of the GOP's biggest national donors, who supports school choice and anti-regulation causes; trial lawyers, who typically lobby against restrictions on filing lawsuits and damage awards in courts; and labor, including building trades and public employee unions.
that restricts the use of public funds to help women get abortions as well as Philadelphia’s challenge to a law barring it and other municipalities fromTwo Republicans and two Democrats are running for a pair of open seats on the Superior Court. The Republican ticket is Harry Smail, a Westmoreland County judge, and Maria Battista, a Clarion County lawyer.
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