On November 3, 2015, voters changed the makeup of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court by electing three Democratic Party candidates to 10-year terms: Christine Donohue, Kevin Dougherty and David Wecht. This created a 5–2 Democratic majority on the court, which has lasted to this day. Republicans are going to spend a lot of money to try to reverse that result in the upcoming November retention elections for these three Justices.

There have been no major scandals and no justice has been arrested or disciplined in the past 10 years. Given the checkered history of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, this is no small accomplishment.

But there has been partisanship. The court has favored Democratic Party interests.

Egregious examples

The most egregious examples were the unseemly rush to draw a new co

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