When you head to the polls on Tuesday, you’ll have a question to answer in addition to selecting your favorite candidates.
The ballot question will surround the proposed constitutional amendment to change the mandatory judicial retirement age.
Currently, Pennsylvania law requires that justices, judges, and magisterial district judges retire by the age of 70. The question will ask whether that age should be raised to 75.
The ballot question reads:
“Shall the Pennsylvania Constitution be amended to require that justices of the Supreme Court, judges, and magisterial district judges be retired on the last day of the calendar year in which they attain the age of 75 years?”
If the ballot question were to be approved, justices, judges and magisterial district judges would be retired on the last day of the calendar year in which they attain the age of 75 years rather than the last day of the calendar year in which they attain the age of 70 years. The question is limited in that it would not amend any other provisions of the Pennsylvania Constitution related to the qualification, election, tenure, or compensation of the justices, judges or magisterial district judges.
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