What happened next was a state Supreme Court election in Pennsylvania unlike any other. Such high-stakes, high-spending partisan campaigns could become standard for judicial elections in Pennsylvania, a premier presidential battleground state where the state Supreme Court has issued pivotal decisions on major election-related cases in recent years. Democrats had held a 5-2 majority on Pennsylvania's Supreme Court before Chief Justice Max Baer died last year. Democrats and their allies learned a hard lesson in Pennsylvania's 2021 race for Supreme Court, when Republicans outspent Democrats by more than $1 million. Based on reports filed thus far to the state, McCaffery and Democratic allies spent more than $13 million, compared to more than $8 million by Carluccio and her allies.

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Persons: Dan McCaffery, Carolyn Carluccio, Donald Trump, that’s, ”, Shanin Specter, ” McCaffery, Roe, Wade, Max Baer, Republican Kevin Brobson, Carluccio, Jeffrey Yass —, ” Specter, Eric Stern, Matthew Brouillette, ” Brouillette, “, ” Kadida Kenner, McCaffery, ” Kenner, Marc Levy Organizations: Republican, Association, U.S, Democratic, Pennsylvania's, Supreme, Republicans outspent, Democratic Party, Democrats, New Pennsylvania Locations: HARRISBURG, Pa, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, U.S ., Wisconsin, Allegheny County