State Supreme Court races will sizzle in 2015

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For the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, 2014 was a year marked by the resignation of a justice who acknowledged forwarding pornographic emails, public feuds between members and the continuing fallout from the felony conviction of yet another justice for using public resources for politics. So will the coming year bring a more placid atmosphere for an appellate court that predates the U.S. Supreme Court?

Guess again.

The confluence of an unprecedented number of vacancies on the 2015 ballot and a national arms race in spending in judicial contests brings the prospect of the most tumultuous and expensive election cycle in the court’s long history.

“It’s going to be a huge money race, that’s for sure,” said Rob Gleason, the state Republican chairman.

Pointing to the 2010 U.S. Supreme Court decision that loosed the strictures on corporate spending in politics, Lynn Marks, the executive director for Pennsylvanians for Modern Courts, said, “The combination of the post-Citizens United era, the unprecedented number of Supreme Court seats available and the focus on the courts because of the recent problems is just the perfect storm for record amounts of money.”

Three high court seats, the largest number ever at stake in one election in the state, will be on the primary and general election ballots.

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Well, there you have it. Shall we start the polls?