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Pennsylvania voters have rejected a Republican effort to remove three Democrats from the state Supreme Court.

The stakes of Tuesday’s election were high: Had Pennsylvanians voted to remove the justices, the state Supreme Court would go from a seven-member court with a Democratic majority to a four-member court with a complete ideological split. The three justices’ vacant seats would not be filled until another election at the end of 2027.

Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court holds these kinds of votes for its justices regularly. The justices are first elected in partisan elections, but at the end of their 10-year terms, voters then decide whether to extend them for anoth

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