In the wake of the state Supreme Court’s elimination of eight magisterial district judgeships in seven counties in February, with the possibility of a nearly 10 percent reduction in 544 MDJ posts across Pennsylvania on the horizon, MDJs across the state said they understand the move but feel they’re unfairly bearing the brunt of the judiciary’s budget woes.
“DJs are responsible for over $450 million brought into the Commonwealth each year but we’re the first ones to get cut,” said West Chester, Pa.-based MDJ Mark A. Bruno, who chairs the state’s Minor Court Rules Committee and is president of the Special Court Judges Association of Pennsylvania. “We’re the low man on the totem pole. We make half as much as common pleas court judges and we can be eliminated by the stroke of a pen by the chief justice.”
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