Campaign Trail Talk Worries Observers
The Times-Tribune of Scranton editorialized this week about some of the problems inherent in electing judges. Focusing on some local judicial candidates’ remarks to the local police union about the...
View ArticleMaking the Case for Merit Selection
In a guest column for the Times-Tribune in Scranton, PMC Board Chair Bob Heim makes the case for Merit Selection. Heim begins with a discussion of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Caperton and...
View ArticlePaper Refuses to Make Judicial Endorsements — Backs Merit Selection Instead
An editorial in the Times-Tribune (Scranton) makes the case for replacing judicial elections with Merit Selection for the appellate courts. Exhibit A is the current partisan — and in the last few days...
View ArticleTimes-Tribune: Change to Merit Selection
An editorial in the Times-Tribune of Scranton quotes PMC’s analysis of the cost of the 2009 Pennsylvania Supreme Court election, noting: Pennsylvania once again leads the nation, as it did in the...
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