Republicans in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives recently introduced resolutions to impeach four Democratic Pennsylvania Supreme Court justices after the justices found the Republican-drawn congressional maps to be unconstitutionally gerrymandered and imposed a new map for the upcoming election. The resolutions were introduced one day after a federal district court and the United States Supreme Court both declined efforts to block the new map.

A couple of years ago, a California judge sentenced a Stanford University swimmer found guilty of intent to commit rape of an intoxicated/unconscious person, penetration of an intoxicated person, and penetration of an unconscious person, to six months in jail. California law permitted a maximum sentence of 14 years in prison, but the six months was not a sentencing disposition that the judge staked out independently; it had been recommended by the probation department. An impassioned statement delivered by the victim before sentencing led to a petition to remove the judge, which has qualified for the June ballot after drawing nearly 100,000 signatures. The initiative will be on the ballot notwithstanding that the Commission on Judicial Performance, an independent state body tasked with investigating complaints of judicial misconduct, found no judicial misconduct.