Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Democrats endorse Philly appellate judge for state Supreme Court seat
Pennsylvania’s Democratic Get together has voted to endorse an appellate courtroom choose from Philadelphia, Daniel McCaffery, to be the social gathering’s nominee for an open state Supreme Court docket seat on this yr’s election.
Get together committee members voted at their assembly over the weekend in suburban Harrisburg to endorse McCaffery over a fellow appellate courtroom choose, Deborah Kunselman of Beaver County.
The first is Could 16. The deadline to file petitions to get on the poll is March 7, and candidates can begin gathering voter signatures Feb. 14.
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Each McCaffery and Kunselman serve on the statewide Superior Court docket, which handles appeals from county courts in felony and civil circumstances.
Pennsylvania Democrats have endorsed Daniel McCafferey, a Philadelphia appellate choose, in his bid for a seat on the state Supreme Court docket.
Republicans will maintain their state committee assembly this weekend in Hershey and will vote to endorse. One candidate, Carolyn Carluccio, a Montgomery County choose, has introduced her candidacy for the social gathering’s nomination for state Supreme Court docket.
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Along with Carluccio, two others — Philadelphia Widespread Pleas Court docket Decide Paula Patrick and Commonwealth Court docket Decide Patricia McCullough of Allegheny County — have met with regional Republican Get together caucuses that interview candidates earlier than holding endorsement votes. Each McCullough and Patrick misplaced within the social gathering’s 2021 major for state Supreme Court docket.
The seven-seat excessive courtroom has one opening to be stuffed within the November election. Justices on the state Supreme Court docket in Pennsylvania serve 10-year phrases and run for subsequent phrases in up-or-down retention elections with out an opponent.
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The courtroom at present has a majority of 4 justices elected as Democrats and two justices elected as Republicans.