Walking away from the Democratic Party has become fairly popular in recent years.
Politics PA reports:
PA Supreme Court Justice David Wecht Announces Change In Affiliation From Democrat to IndependentIn an announcement on Monday afternoon, Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice David Wecht said that he is changing his party affiliation from Democrat to Independent.Wecht, who was retained by the voters of the Commonwealth last November for a 10-year term, stated that his “jurisprudence and adjudication have always been independent, and they always will be. Now, my voting registration reflects that independence as well.”Pennsylvania’s highest court saw Democrats with a 5-2 majority with Wecht joining fellow Justices Christine Donohue, Kevin Dougherty, Daniel McCaffrey and Chief Justice Debra Todd. Sallie Updyke Mundy and Brobson are the Republican-elected justices on the high court. Wecht’s decision shifts the proverbial balance to 4-2-1.Wecht, a graduate of Yale University and Yale Law School, won election to the Pennsylvania Superior Court in 2011 and served until 2015, when he won election to the state’s Supreme Court. He is the son of Cyril Wecht, a nationally-recognized pathologist and longtime Allegheny County Medical Examiner, known for famously disagreeing with the single-bullet theory in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.In November 2020, Wecht ruled in a lawsuit challenging Joe Biden’s victory in Pennsylvania that the effort to overturn the results of the election was “futile” and “a dangerous game.”Below is the text of Wecht’s statement.“The people of Pennsylvania elected me. They put their faith in me, and I reciprocate. I have faith in Pennsylvanians, and they deserve to know the following.In 1998, my wife and I were married at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Congregation, on whose Board of Trustees I served. Twenty years later, in the very same sanctuary where our wedding occurred, the worst massacre of Jews in American history was perpetrated. That terror came from the right. Jew-hatred has always festered on the fringe of that sector.In the years that have followed, that same hatred has grown on the left. Increasingly, it has moved from the fringe to the mainstream. It is the duty of all good people to fight this virus, and to do so before it is too late.My jurisprudence and adjudication have always been independent, and they always will be. Now, my voting registration reflects that independence as well.
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