George Polycranos

Port Matilda

On Nov. 4, Pennsylvania voters will have the opportunity to vote YES to retain our outstanding Supreme Court Justices, our Superior Court Justice and our Commonwealth Justice.

The Pennsylvania Bar Association has recommended that these justices, who have all served Pennsylvania admirably for the last decade and been widely credited for “restoring competence, honor and ethics to our courts,” be retained.

So why on earth would anyone want to prevent the retention of judges with so much legal expertise, experience and integrity?

Radical Republicans are currently working to deny the retention of these justices in order to run extreme MAGA candidates for those seats in 2026 giving them the opportunity to gerrymander congressional districts and sway future elections. To accomplish this, they are running a nasty smear campaign filled with disinformation and funded by billionaires and dark money PACs.

Roy Cohn, the mafia lawyer who mentored Donald Trump and his contempt for the rule of law, once said “Don’t tell me the law; tell me who the judge is.” Clearly, these ultra-conservative operatives seeking to stack our courts with extreme partisan judges are working from Cohn’s corrupt playbook.

Justices Christine Donahue, Kevin Dougherty, David Wecht, Alice Beck Dubow and Michael Wojcik have all displayed the judicial independence, judgment and integrity very deserving of a YES vote for their retention.

All Pennsylvanians who value our Constitution, the rule of law and free and fair elections need to turn out on Nov. 4 and VOTE YES TO RETAIN these exemplary public servants.