PENNLIVE: Pennsylvania voters will have plenty of important decisions to make when they enter the voting booth on April 26 but amending the state constitution to raise the mandatory retirement age for judges won’t be one of them.
The Senate on Monday passed by a vote of 32-17 to approve a concurrent resolution to move that referendum to raise the judges’ retirement age to 75, from the current 70, to the Nov. 8 general election ballot. The House passed an identical resolution last week by a vote of 110-77.
Gov. Tom Wolf’s spokesman Jeff Sheridan said the administration is prepared to accept the General Assembly’s decision to delay the referendum until the fall… (more)
