It strikes many of us as more than ironic that PA Supreme Court Justice Saylor was the only justice to rule against re-instating the controversial pay raise for the judiciary. Happenstance is that he is the next PA Supreme Court Justice up for retention. I’m sure that there was no connection between his lone dissention in this ruling and being next up to face the voters. (Is there an HTML code in Blogger to denote sarcasm?)
Voter anger over the pay raise was re-stoked by accusations against Superior Court Justice Mike Joyce that he defrauded insurance companies out of $440,000. Despite the accusation of these federal charges, Joyce seemed ready to run for retention anyway.
Things suddenly changed this week, when Joyce had a change of heart, probably with some “help” from his fellow judicial candidates and decided not to seek retention. (Joyce’s announcement not to seek retention is detailed in the blog entry below.)
John Baer in the Philadelphia Inquirer writes:
IF YOU SENSE in the air a sigh of relief, it's from Pennsylvania's judiciary.
(I mean the pay-raise judiciary, the slots judiciary, the Legislature-can-do-what-it-wants judiciary, the please-Lord-let-nobody-look-at-us judiciary.)
If you also note an acrid smell, it's lingering fear - from the same source.
Both are justified. Read more…
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