Kevin Brobson is the Republican candidate on the ballot for the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. The race has garnered an unusually high degree of right-wing “dark money” involvement since Democrats currently enjoy a 5-2 majority on that court and the race is to replace retiring Justice Thomas Saylor. Currently a judge on the intermediate Commonwealth Court, Brobson in 2020 attempted to disenfranchise thousands of Pennsylvania voters by ruling that thousands of mail-in ballots should not be counted in a 2020 Pittsburgh-area Senate race between Republican Nicole Ziccarelli and the incumbent Democrat, Jim Brewster. The ballots were otherwise properly filled out and timely submitted. Brobson’s ruling, which had found fault with the ballots because they had not been hand-dated by the voters, was overturned by the state’s Supreme Court, and Brewster is, thankfully, still a PA state senator. A judge whose past rulings have shown him to be willing and eager to disenfranchise Pennsylvanians for such apparently specious reasons evidently appealed to a Republican Party which has now fulsomely embraced Trump’s “Big Lie.” Accordingly, right-wing groups and individuals have poured money into this race which, although it would not directly alter the state Supreme Court’s balance, would be a useful stepping stone for the GOP in ultimately accomplishing that goal. Read more