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As we reported earlier this month, an editorial in the Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era “salute[d] the effort” to bring Merit Selection to the Pennsylvania appellate courts.  In response, PMC submitted a letter affirming that now is the time to act:

With the scandals in the Luzerne County court system, the continuing flow of special interest money into state court elections, and the likelihood that the U.S. Supreme Court will rule in October (in the Citizens United case) that corporations have a fundamental right to spend freely on state elections, it’s high time for a groundswell of Pennsylvania voices to let our leaders know we want our judges selected by their qualifications, not by a popularity contest and not by a fundraising arms race.

We hope Pennsylvanians will heed the call and make their voices heard.

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