• Judicial System of Pennsylvania is the unified state court system of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania is the state supreme...
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  • In Pennsylvania, the judiciary is chosen through partisan elections. Partisan elections involve judges political party to be listed on the ballot. The...
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    The Judiciary Act of 1789 (ch. 20, 1 Stat. 73) was a United States federal statute enacted on September 24, 1789, during the first session of the First...
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  • Government of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is the governmental structure of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as established by the Pennsylvania Constitution...
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    District of Pennsylvania (in case citations, E.D. Pa.) is one of the original 13 federal judiciary districts created by the Judiciary Act of 1789. It...
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    Pennsylvania (/ˌpɛnsɪlˈveɪniə/ PEN-sil-VAY-nee-ə, lit. 'Penn's forest country'), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania Dutch: Pennsilfaani)...
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    Judiciary, informally known as the Senate Judiciary Committee, is a standing committee of 21 U.S. senators whose role is to oversee the Department of...
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    appointments, excluding appointments to the District of Columbia judiciary. The total number of Trump Article III judgeship nominees to be confirmed by...
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    House Committee on the Judiciary, also called the House Judiciary Committee, is a standing committee of the United States House of Representatives. It is...
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  • The federal judiciary of the United States is one of the three branches of the federal government of the United States organized under the United States...
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    Court became, and remains, the court of last resort in the Pennsylvania judiciary. The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania predates the United States Supreme...
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    and municipal courthouses and office buildings. Judiciary Square is located roughly between Pennsylvania Avenue to the south, H Street to the north, 6th...
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    Philadelphia Family Court (category Pennsylvania state courts)
    specialized division of the Court of Common Pleas for Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. The Family Court has jurisdiction in the proceedings of domestic relations...
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    Jerry Pappert (category Judges of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania)
    Senate Committee on the Judiciary" (PDF). "On the Cloture Motion (Motion to Invoke Cloture on Gerald J. Pappert, of Pennsylvania, to be U.S. District Judge...
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    Western District of Pennsylvania in the federal judiciary. The district's cases are appealed to the Philadelphia-based United States Court of Appeals for the...
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    Pennsylvania currently serving as a Republican member of the Pennsylvania State Senate from the 20th District since 2007. She chairs the Pennsylvania...
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    judicial appointments, excluding appointments to the District of Columbia judiciary. As of October 31, 2024[update], the United States Senate has confirmed...
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    College is a private, Presbyterian-related college in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1869 by two Presbyterian ministers, it was named for its...
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  • Elizabeth K. (1937). "The Attack on the Judiciary in Pennsylvania, 1800-1810". The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. 61 (2): 114. ISSN 0031-4587...
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    Cindy K. Chung (category United States Attorneys for the Western District of Pennsylvania)
    of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. She previously served as United States attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania...
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    1971 as a Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and from 1971 to 1981 as a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate representing...
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    The University of Pennsylvania (commonly known as Penn or UPenn) is a private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States...
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    The Constitution of Pennsylvania is the supreme law within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. All acts of the General Assembly, the governor, and each...
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    Mary Kay Costello (category Judges of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania)
    judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania since September 2024. She previously served as a magistrate judge of the...
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    County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It is the northernmost county in Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 270...
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    is no date listed in The Pennsylvania Manual. Kane accepted a federal judiciary appointment. Campbell accepted the position of U. S. Postmaster General...
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  • widely from those of the federal government, and from one another. In practice, however, every state has adopted a division of its judiciary into at least...
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    The following is a list of the 67 counties of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. The city of Philadelphia is coterminous with Philadelphia County, the municipalities...
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    Wendy Beetlestone (category Judges of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania)
    Committee on the Judiciary" (PDF). "On the Cloture Motion (Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Nomination of Wendy Beetlestone, of Pennsylvania, to be U.S. District...
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    justice of the United States is the chief judge of the Supreme Court of the United States and is the highest-ranking officer of the U.S. federal judiciary. Article...
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