Pa. Supreme Court Justices Getting Rendell's Attention

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Gov. Ed Rendell upped the ante in an obscure state Supreme Court primary this spring when he vowed to campaign and raise money for Philadelphia President Judge C. Darnell Jones II, a respected jurist the Democratic party spurned.

Four Democrats and three Republicans are seeking nominations for two open seats on the state's highest court in the May 15 primary. The openings were created by the departure of a pair of justices who had been targeted in 2005 by voters angry about the legislative pay raise. Voters ousted one on a retention vote and the other retired.

Rendell chastised state Democrats who spurned Jones by endorsing an east-west ticket of Superior Court …