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Dueling Pennsylvania House leaders schedule same special elections for different days [1]
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Date: 2022-12-15
Republicans filed a lawsuit last week seeking to block McClinton’s chosen dates, and the verdict could have serious consequences even if Democrats end up holding all three of these constituencies. The New York Times’ Campbell Robertson writes that Democrats are afraid that if the GOP gets control of the speakership next month, they’d rewrite the rules to keep it—even if Democrats prevail in all three special elections; Cutler, in the words of Robertson, insisted that “such speculation was premature,” which is anything but a denial of his intentions.
And as pointed out by Pennsylvania election law attorney Adam Bonin, who works with state Democrats, a Republican House would have the chance to place an anti-abortion constitutional amendment before voters during the May 2023 primary. This measure would amend the state’s governing document to say, “This constitution does not grant the right to taxpayer-funded abortion or any other right relating to abortion.”
The GOP is also looking to advance other amendments to require voter ID and to enhance the legislature’s power. State law requires both chambers to pass a proposed amendment during two successive sessions of the legislature with an election in between before it can get on the ballot. The GOP already began the process with a vote in favor of these amendments following the 2020 elections, but if the state House can’t pass them a second time, Republicans (who currently run the state Senate) would need to wait until they hold both chambers again before starting the process once more from scratch.
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