Wecht (D) makes his case before Pa. Supreme Court retention vote: 'It's just our job to apply the law'
Even in these partisan times, judicial races are supposed to be different. Judicial retention races doubly so — if only because no one is supposed to pay attention.
That has not been the case this year, as Pennsylvania voters are being asked whether they wish to keep three Supreme Court justices on the bench after they’ve served 10 years.
"One would expect that a retention election would be different by orders of magnitude,” lamented Justice David Wecht in an interview with WESA. “But because of the atmosphere in which we all live now, everything it seems has become so hotly contested, so acrimonious, that I think it's devolved into just another contested election.”
Wecht is no stranger to politics: The son of legendary Pittsburgh coroner Cyril Wecht, he previously served as Allegheny County’s elected Register of Wills, then as a Common Pleas Judge and later an appellate judge in the state Superior Court. He was elected in 2015 alongside Justices Christine Donohue and Kevin Dougherty. All ran as Democrats that year, and while retention campaigns are supposed to be nonpartisan affairs, it doesn’t always work out that way.
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