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March 6, 2023

Tying Up Some Old Threads (A McCullough In The News)

We'll start here:

This is Judge Patricia McCullough, of the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court.

So is this:

And this is Pat, at a Wendy Bell rally, saying that "All law is based on natural law. And all law is based on divine law."

This is Judge Patricia McCullough, of the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court.

Living deep in the sacred heart of the National Apostolic Reformation - Pennsylvania local. 

She's also Chuck McCullough's wife.

You remember Chuck, right?  Member of the Allegheny County Council who was arrested in 2009 for the misuse of some estate funds (among other things).

I wonder if Chuck and Pat ever discussed how "all law is based on natural law" when he was writing those checks he had no legal authority to write. Or when he was arrested. Or found guilty. Or (finally) sent to jail.

This weekend, an astute reader sent me a note, letting me know that Chuck's was paroled on February 19, 2023.

He was incarcerated for 1 year, 10 months and 13 days (or thereabouts).

Which seems ludicrous considering it was:

  • 6 years, 2 months, 4 days between Chuck's arrest and the beginning of his trial.
  • 5 years, 11 months, 25 days between Chuck's sentencing and the beginning of his incarceration. 
  • 12 years, 1 month, 28 days between Chuck's arrest and the beginning of his incarceration.

The wheels of justice certainly move slowly for some, eh your Honor?

Also, remember how Trump lost all but one of those court cases designed to keep him in office?

Guess who presided over that one. Judge Patricia McCullough.

It was dismissed by the PA Supreme Court:

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court dismissed a Republican lawsuit seeking to invalidate the state’s mail-in ballots on Saturday evening, the latest legal defeat for Donald Trump in his unprecedented effort to overturn the result of the 2020 election. 

The latest Pennsylvania lawsuit, led by Republican congressman Mike Kelly, was unanimously rejected by the state’s Supreme Court judges, who described it as an “extraordinary proposition that the court disenfranchise 6.9 million Pennsylvanians who voted in the general election”. 

Five of the seven judges argued the case should be dismissed because the challenge had come too late, considering that the absentee voting procedures in the state had been established a year ago. 

The court’s decision overturns an earlier hold on the state’s certification process made by Commonwealth Court judge Patricia McCullough.

Context is everything.