The state Supreme Court is beset by feuding and allegations. The judicial discipline system puts in another poor showing. An outgoing justice calls for doing away with Pennsylvania's judicial elections, while trial lawyers and organized labor pour millions into the partisan contests and line up against efforts to do away with them. "A moderate and badly needed judicial reform bill sits in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives," this editorial page notes. "If it is not approved before Aug. 5, the people of Pennsylvania will have to wait until at least 1987." For stories of eternal return set in the Keystone State, Groundhog Day has nothing on the debate over replacing...
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