Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court Judge Patricia McCullough, the only jurist nationwide to have briefly ordered a halt the certification of Joe Biden’s win in the 2020 election, is on the ballot in Tuesday’s Republican primary for the state Supreme Court, seeking to advance to the general election on November 7th to fill a seat on the bench left open by the death of Dem Chief Justice Max Baer, who passed away on September 30, 2022, Bolts Magazine reports.
The stakes aren’t as high as those in Wisconsin last month when liberal Justice-elect Janet Protasiewicz’s victory against former state Supreme Court Justice Dan Kelly flipped a 4-3 MAGA majority to a 4-3 liberal after she’s sworn in, as Pennsylvania’s state Supreme Court bench currently sits at a 4-2 Dem majority with the one seat vacant. Still this asshole shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near the state’s highest court given her campaign connections to fellow election denier and QAnon freak failed 2022 Republican gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano’s PAC.
She’s not shy about embracing the 2020 conspiracy bullshit either. “I was the only judge in the entire country to enter an order to halt the certification of the 2020 presidential election results,” said McCullough in 2021 – which is true, even if three MAGA state Supreme Court justices in Wisconsin and possibly more elsewhere voted against certifications and Trump scored various smaller victories, only one of which stood. McCullough lost the 2021 Republican primary by 19 points to now-Justice Kevin Brobson so it’s quite possible this bid is a dead end too. However McCullough’s 2023 opponent, Montgomery County Judge Carolyn Carluccio is just a less extreme MAGA douchebag. “If even one Pennsylvanian has concerns about our electoral process, we must address them. Our government cannot simply dismiss the concerns of a large portion of our electorate,” Carluccio told the Philadelphia Inquirer last week, as if believing some dogshit country like Venezuela built a supercomputer that could hack an American election is something that belongs in court of law, no matter how many Gateway Pundit-diseased brains believe it.