The chief justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, a Republican, spoke out Thursday against lawmakers of his own party who filed legislation to impeach four Democratic state Supreme Court justices over disagreements on the state’s congressional map. The state Supreme Court imposed its own map only after giving lawmakers and the governor three weeks to come up with a replacement map. Christopher Borick, a professor of political science at Muhlenberg College, said it was uncommon for a sitting Supreme Court justice to speak out the way Saylor did. The impeachment talk comes the same week that the United States Supreme Court and a lower federal court rejected Republican challenges to the state court’s decision. The decision means a new congressional map will be in place for the 2018 elections.

Source: Huffington Post March 22, 2018 20:26 UTC