Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice David Wecht announced on Monday that he is leaving the Democratic Party due to what he believed was the rampant spread of “Jew-hatred” and antisemitism within the party. His announcement comes a little over six months after he won a retention election to serve another 10-year term in November. Wecht was first elected to Pennsylvania’s high court in 2015. “From 1998 to 2001, years that preceded my judicial career, I served as Vice-Chair of the Pennsylvania Democratic Party,” Wecht said in a statement announcing the change of his party affiliation. “In the quarter-century that has passed since...
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