Anyone who comes close to the justice system knows these laws are necessary to ensure the public can safely access courts and to ensure courts can do their jobs.

We helped New York judges file an amicus brief supporting NY's law banning courthouse arrests:
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Along those lines, if you want to read more about the actual decisions coming out of state high courts across the country, check us out at @statecourtreport.org 8/

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State supreme courts are important in our democracy. The public *should* know about these elections. But at a time when that public needs to be confident that judges are capable of holding their allies accountable to the law, it is not great that dark money ads are a primary source of info. 7/

We’ve collected all the TV ads here and they reflect this heightened moment in state judicial politics: more money, more funding from out-of-state groups, and messaging that looks more like a Senate race than a judicial race
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Meanwhile, the conservative Citizens for Term Limits’ anti-retention ads say that “we must defend our democracy and three No votes will force an election. It is time to term limit the court.” 5/

The messaging in the race says a lot about judicial politics today: PJF’s ads say the state supreme court is the “last line of defense” against attacks on abortion, which is legal in PA “thanks to Justices Donohue, Dougherty, & Wecht” 4/

The biggest pro-retention spender is PA for Judicial Fairness ($4.8m), anti-retention is Citizens for Term Limits ($1.4m). Both groups are opaque, and this @spotlightpa piece explains why we don’t know more about where the money is coming from www.spotlightpa.org/news/2025/10... 3/

At $16 million in campaign spending, the PA retention elections are the second most expensive retention elections ever. But the justices themselves have only raised $4 million, the bulk of the spending is by outside interest groups. 2/

We track all the TV ads in the race and you can see those here
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Read more about how this race that would usually fly under the radar could shape the national elections in 2026 and 2028

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And if you want to watch all the TV ads in the race, you can find them here:
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