| abstract | - To win the retention vote and keep her job, in the wake of the payraise scandal, the GOP spent losts of money to insure she was re-elected.
* Justice Sandra Newman is going to leave the bench in 2006, so say reports. She stayed long enough to get her "pay raise" increase in her pension increase. Source: August 18, 2006, Capitolwire: Supreme Court Justice Sandra Newman Leaving Newman leaving Supremes? And by the end of this year? Several Pennsylvania Supreme Court sources and sources close to Supreme Court Justice Sandra Newman confirmed that she has said she is leaving after the elections are over this year. Possible new employers include law firms based in Philadelphia, with some insiders saying Cozen & O'Connor are currently in the lead. Two court sources said Newman, who survived a tough retention election just last November, has told them "the court is no fun" nowadays, and the post-pay-raise attention to legal perks, combined with her grief over her husband, Julius "Dr. Nose" Newman, have made the jurist long for a different job. A Republican who has long been a favorite of former Gov. Tom Ridge and current Gov. Ed Rendell, Newman did not respond to Capitolwire questions about the reports she would leave at year's end. Top staffers and state judges also confirmed Newman has been talking about offers she has received, but Newman has told her Supreme Court colleagues only that she is considering offers
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