Party nominees for four statewide judicial posts, including one on the Supreme Court, will be settled in Tuesday's primary election in Pennsylvania.
Democrats currently hold a 4-2 majority on the state's highest court, which is playing a prominent role in settling disputes over voting rights, abortion rights and gun rights in the presidential battleground state.
In recent years, justices rejected a request to invalidate the state's death penalty law and upheld the constitutionality of the state's expansive mail-in voting law. The nation's highest court ultimately declined to take the case. Still, the ballots - nearly 10,000 of them - were never tabulated or added to vote counts because the election was certified while their fate remained in legal limbo. State elections officials said the votes weren't enough to change the results of a federal election.
On Republican ballots will be Harry Smail, a Westmoreland County judge, and Marie Battista, a Clarion County lawyer.
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