{"id":331364,"date":"2025-10-25T10:46:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T10:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/331364\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T10:46:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T10:46:08","slug":"philadelphia-election-2025-court-of-common-pleas-municipal-courts-voter-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/331364\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia election 2025: Court of Common Pleas, Municipal Courts voter guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What questions do you have about the 2025 elections? What major issues do you want candidates to address? <a href=\"#Section1\">Let us know.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>When Philadelphia <a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/articles\/pennsylvania-philadelphia-election-2025-voter-guide-deadlines\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">voters <\/a>look at their election ballots this year, they will see candidates for judges for the Court of Common Pleas and Philadelphia Municipal Courts.\n<\/p>\n<p>The Court of Common Pleas handles thousands of cases each year that directly affect Philadelphians \u2014 from criminal sentencing to custody rulings to civil damages. While higher courts grab headlines, it\u2019s the Court of Common Pleas where most legal battles are actually fought and resolved. From homicide trials to family custody disputes to landlord-tenant hearings, these judges shape the justice system city residents experience directly.\n<\/p>\n<p>Common Pleas judges are paid $227,000 per year to adjudicate felonies and civil cases with claims above $12,000.\n  <\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/elections-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2025 general election<\/a> features a diverse slate of all Democratic candidates \u2014 most with endorsements from the Philadelphia Democratic Party and the Philadelphia Bar Association. However, all are virtually guaranteed to win given that, this year, 11 candidates are running for 11 open seats. Another 13 candidates are running to be retained for another 10-year term.\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What questions do you have about the 2025 elections? What major issues do you want candidates to address?&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":331365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,164455,89694,1448,2830,1311,164456,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-331364","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-common-pleas-court","10":"tag-elections-2025","11":"tag-pa","12":"tag-pennsylvania","13":"tag-philadelphia","14":"tag-philadelphia-courts","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115434408423735896","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}