Posted by
Defend America on Wednesday, November 04, 2009 6:14:08 PM
Pennsylvania Supreme Court: The more restrained candidate wins
Joan Orie Melvin, a Republican, defeated Jack Panella, a Democrat, to win a 10-year term on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court Tuesday. Her margin of victory was 53-47 percent. (Secretary of State's election results page.)
When Melvin takes office in January, the court's philosophical
balance will be 4-to-3 for the -- pick the term -- more judicially
restrained, conservative, "rule of law," less activist, Republican. The
Republican advantage could figure in the decennial legislative
redistricting.
http://www.pointoflaw.com/archives/2009/11/pennsylvania-su-3.php