{"id":1669876,"date":"2022-10-03T09:44:18","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T13:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1669876"},"modified":"2022-10-03T09:44:26","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T13:44:26","slug":"pennsylvania-supreme-court-chief-justice-dies-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pennsylvania-supreme-court-chief-justice-dies-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania Supreme Court Chief Justice Dies: Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpennsylvania-supreme-court-chief-justice-dies-court%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1669876&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-pennsylvania\">Pennsylvania<\/a> Supreme Court Chief Justice Max Baer died just months before he was slated to retire, the court said over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Baer, 74, died on Saturday at his home near Pittsburgh, the court <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/news-and-statistics\/news\/news-detail\/1115\/pennsylvania-supreme-court-announces-passing-of-chief-justice-max-baer\">confirmed<\/a> in a news release. Other details about his death were not provided.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPennsylvania has lost a jurist who served the Court and the citizens of the Commonwealth with distinction,\u201d said new Chief Justice Debra Todd in a news release. \u201cChief Justice Baer was an influential and intellectual jurist whose unwavering focus was on administering fair and balanced justice. He was a tireless champion for children, devoted to protecting and providing for our youngest and most vulnerable citizens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Baer was elected to the court as a Democrat, and his death leaves a 4\u20132 Democrat majority on the commonwealth\u2019s high court.\u00a0In 2003, he was first elected to the Supreme Court before he was sworn in as the high court\u2019s chief justice in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, Baer was part of the 5-2 majority as the Pennsylvania Supreme Court upheld a wide expansion of mail-in voting in Pennsylvania. Notably, he also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/09\/17\/2020-election-pennsylvania-supreme-court-hands-democrats-a-win.html\">sided<\/a> with the court\u2019s majority in a ruling that favored Democrats to extend the use of the state\u2019s mail-in voting and ballot drop boxes with weeks to go before the 2020 election.<\/p>\n<p>Todd added that Baer\u2019s \u201cdistinguished service and commitment to justice and fairness spanned his decades on the bench,\u201d including as a family court judge in Pennsylvania\u2019s\u00a0Allegheny County. He eventually worked as an\u00a0administrative judge in a family court before he was elected to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn behalf of the Court,\u201d Todd wrote, \u201cwe offer our deepest condolences to family, friends, and colleagues of Chief Justice Baer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Baer was set to retire at the end of 2022 after reaching the mandatory retirement age of 75. 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