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Past President David Fallk explores the rule of law for Law Week in this guest op-ed published in the Scranton Times-Tribune.
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The rule of law, the subject of this year’s Law Week, is a foundational tenet of an orderly and just society. The ancients had the Code of Hammurabi and the
Pennsylvania voters are urged to reject a proposed constitutional amendment that would gerrymander the election of statewide appellate court judges.
Amendment mocks separation of powers
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Perhaps because they are political animals themselves, lawmakers behind the effort to politicize the state appellate courts through gerrymandering apparently can’t view governance through anything o...
The Times-Tribune Editorial Board calls for the state's voters to reject a cynical attempt by lawmakers in Harrisburg to put statewide appellate court judges into gerrymandered districts.
Reject cynical gerrymander of judiciary
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There is perverse symmetry to legislative Republicans’ plans to gerrymander the state’s appellate courts. It was the state Supreme Court’s dismantling of congressional gerrymandering, after all,...