{"id":17934,"date":"2025-10-28T18:52:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T18:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/17934\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T18:52:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T18:52:13","slug":"retention-election-supreme-court-of-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/17934\/","title":{"rendered":"Retention election: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania voters go to the polls next week to decide if three Supreme Court Justices will remain on the bench. Judicial retention elections usually fly under the radar, but not this one \u2013 it\u2019s become one of the most expensive, with Republicans hoping to unseat the three justices who were originally elected as Democrats. We\u2019ll listen to a forum with the three justices and get two opposing views on the retention question.<\/p>\n<p>Guests:<\/p>\n<p>Hon. Christine Donohue, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/courts\/supreme-court\/supreme-court-justices\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Supreme Court of Pennsylvania<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hon. Kevin Dougherty, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/courts\/supreme-court\/supreme-court-justices\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Supreme Court of Pennsylvania<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Hon. David Wecht, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/courts\/supreme-court\/supreme-court-justices\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Supreme Court of Pennsylvania<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Guy Ciarrocchi \u2013 a Republican writer for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpennsylvania.com\/authors\/guy_ciarrocchi\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">RealClear Pennsylvania<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/broadandliberty.com\/author\/gciarrocchi\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Broad and Liberty<\/a><\/p>\n<p>J.J. Abbott \u2013 a democratic strategist and executive director of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comms2.org\/about\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Commonwealth Communications<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania voters go to the polls next week to decide if three Supreme Court Justices will remain on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17935,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[836,28,30,29,12736],"class_list":{"0":"post-17934","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-election","9":"tag-pennsylvania","10":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","11":"tag-pennsylvania-news","12":"tag-studio-2"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}