PHILLY.COM Column: …In short, the state constitution requires judges to retire at 70; that provision is under challenge by a bunch of judges through state and federal lawsuits…
“The idea that a provision of the [Pennsylvania] constitution violates the [United States] Constitution makes no sense,” says Bruce Ledewitz, a professor at Duquesne University School of Law in Pittsburgh and a constitutional expert. “It’s silly.”
(Spoiler alert: The court does what it pleases, as in redistricting that only laughingly complies with the constitution; or in allowing the Legislature income and benefits to inflate way beyond a constitutional proscription in Article II, Section 8 that limitis members to salary and mileage “and no other compensation whatever.”) … (more)
