{"id":25345,"date":"2025-11-05T09:43:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T09:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/25345\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T09:43:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T09:43:12","slug":"democrat-backed-justice-christine-donohue-retains-seat-on-pennsylvania-supreme-court-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/25345\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrat-backed Justice Christine Donohue retains seat on Pennsylvania Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Christine Donohue was retained by Pennsylvania voters on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The state\u2019s Supreme Court had a 5-2 Democratic majority entering Tuesday\u2019s election. Republicans campaigned to try to stop three judges up for retention \u2014 Donohue and two others \u2014 from continuing on the court. The state Democratic Party backed Donohue in her bid for retention.<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania elects its statewide judges to 10-year terms, then holds nonpartisan \u201cretention elections\u201d \u2014 a simple yes or no vote \u2014 to determine whether the judge will serve another term. Donohue has served on the state Supreme Court since 2016. With the vote, Donohue may remain on the court until she reaches mandatory retirement age in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press declared Donohue was retained at 9:51 p.m. EST.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ktar923\" data-show-count=\"false\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Follow @ktar923<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ktar.com\/newsletters\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/KTAREmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"mobile-signup\"\/>\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/KTAREmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"desktop-signup\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Christine Donohue was retained by Pennsylvania voters on Tuesday. The state\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10365,86,28,30,29,10364],"class_list":{"0":"post-25345","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-92-3-ktar","9":"tag-home","10":"tag-pennsylvania","11":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","12":"tag-pennsylvania-news","13":"tag-phoenix-and-arizona-breaking-news-and-news-headlines-home"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25345","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=25345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}