Former U.S. Senator Arlen Specter, who died Sunday at age 82, was a legal giant in Pennsylvania who greatly shaped the federal judiciary in the state for more than three decades, lawyers told The Legal.
In addition to exercising great care regarding the selection of judges to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and the U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Specter was the first one to disconnect politics from hiring decisions for the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office, interviewees said.
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