Christopher Brooks

No state built America more than Pennsylvania. On the heels of our 250 th year of independence, most think of how Pennsylvanians built the nation...

Up to now, states have utilized three ways of selecting judges: appointment, election, and merit selection via a judicial nominating commission (JNC)....

Complaints about how Pennsylvania selects its appellate judges are nothing new. The January 1964 Citizens Conference reasoned that “the objective of...

We don’t need to engage in an acrimonious, pick-a-side fight over race and culture in America, though you wouldn’t know it from reading much media...