Vacancies on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court—a nearly constant problem and concern over the past 20 years—may go unfilled until after November’s judicial elections, setting the stage for the court to function with only five justices throughout 2015.
Gov. Tom Wolf has the authority to nominate interim justices to fill the seats left by former Chief Justice Ronald D. Castille, who reached mandatory retirement age, and former Justice Seamus P. McCaffery, who retired in October in the wake of revelations about sexually explicit emails that prompted conflict among some of the justices. Wolf’s nominations would require confirmation by a two-thirds majority of the state Senate.
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