We Should be Worried about Sleepy Elections
An article in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review offers a gloomy assessment about the upcoming judicial elections in Westmoreland County where voters are electing two new judges: Look who’s talking about...
View ArticleLet’s Talk About Money
All of a sudden, other people seem to be doing our work for us, that is alerting the public to the evils of money in judicial elections. Supreme Court candidates are challenging each other about...
View ArticleNewspapers Call for a Gift Ban
Editorials in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Patriot-News, and Philadelphia Inquirer criticize Pennsylvania Supreme Court Chief Justice Ronald D. Castille for accepting expensive gifts and call for a...
View ArticleTake Another Look at those Cars
The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review this weekend published a letter to the editor from PMC. This letter came as a response to an article about the tax-payer paid leases for luxury vehicles driven by judges....
View ArticleChanges in Harrisburg Bring Optimism for Merit Selection
Bobby Kerlik at the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports that merit selection supporters are hopeful that the political changes in Harrisburg will help advance the cause of reform. Shira Goodman, deputy...
View ArticlePMC: Orie Melvin Case Demands Swift Action and Long Term Reform
Pennsylvanians for Modern Courts today called for swift action following the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review‘s report that Supreme Court Justice Joan Orie viagra 100mg price Melvin is the target of a grand...
View ArticlePMC in the News
There has been extensive news coverage of the revelation that Supreme Court Justice Joan Orie Melvin is the target of an on-going grand jury investigation about the use of government staff for election...
View ArticleA Recipe for Trouble
The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports that some candidates for the 2013 judicial elections in Allegheny County have announced their candidacies on Facebook. Well, of course they have. Facebook is free,...
View ArticleJustice Joan Orie Melvin’s Preliminary Hearing
State Supreme Court Justice Joan Orie Melvin’s preliminary hearing before District Judge James Hanley in Pittsburgh Municipal Court started yesterday. A preliminary hearing is an initial hearing to...
View ArticleIt Doesn’t Make Sense
The Orie Melvin case continues to highlight the problems that result from electing judges. The entire case is a product of judicial elections: the Supreme Court justice is accused of illegal use of...
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