Lemont
As a social studies teacher, I explained to 11 year olds the balance of power between three branches of government. The executive branch (the governor) implements laws; the legislative branch (PA House and Senate, aka the General Assembly) write; and the Judicial Branch makes sure those laws are actually legal. Judges are beholden to the PA Constitution, and laws representatives write, and governors sign.
But a bill snaking its way through the Pennsyvlania legislature would make judges bow to politics rather than law. Right now, all judges are elected by all Pennsylvanians. House Bill 38 proposes a constitutional amendment that would gerrymander Pennsylvania into Judicial Districts to elect judges from different slices of the PA electoral pie.