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A Pennsylvania judge simply learnt the difficult method that there are, in truth, effects for being overtly partisan.
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) rejected previous Judge Mark Cohen’s petition for certiorari, leaving in location a 2024 judgment by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court that supported his suspension over a years-long stream of partisan Facebook posts.
Supreme Court will not restore Pennsylvania judge suspended for partisan Facebook posts https://t.co/4CKXhPecVm– The Hill(@thehill) October 5, 2026
Cohen wasn’t especially shy about letting his sensations be understood on his page, publishing whatever from his unabashed appreciation of Pennsylvania’s Democrat guv, Josh Shapiro, to his ideas on Tennessee limiting Critical Race Theory(CRT )being taught in state class (” Shameless retrogression!”).
In other words, his public posts check out like Democrat Party talking points.
Cohen obviously began his Facebook page back in 2007 when he was serving in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, allegedly”to get individuals associated with the Democratic Party “and to notify his constituents about crucial concerns.
A political leader publishing political messages on Facebook isn’t an issue, however the expectations altered significantly when Cohen was chosen to the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas in 2017 and took workplace in January 2018. He was now anticipated to be neutral– something he appeared reluctant to be on his Facebook page.
A person ultimately brought the page to the attention of Cohen’s brand-new employers, who recommended him to stop. He informed them he ‘d look for the guidance of a principles lawyer, however continued to publish regardless of the caution. This provoked among his superiors to refer him to the Judicial Conduct Board, which without delay started an examination.
Amongst the posts that got Cohen into problem were ones that applauded Joe Biden, supported Josh Shapiro and John Fetterman, protected Democratic policies, promoted for unions, assaulted Republican-backed policies, and supplied commentary on things like abortion, weapon control, student-loan forgiveness and, obviously, January 6.
The Pennsylvania Court of Judicial Discipline suspended Cohen for the rest of his term and without pay in 2024. That choice was supported in 2026 by the greatest court in the Commonwealth.
When inquired about the continued partisan nature of his posts, Cohen later on affirmed that his function was to “engage people in discussion,” which “enable[d him] to learn things and enable[d] others to learn things,” which he thought about a “positive good.”
The volume of Cohen’s publishing was so fantastic that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court would ultimately conclude that his Facebook activity made him appear “little more than a spokesperson for the Democratic Party.” Justice David Wecht’s concurrence in fact explained Cohen’s conduct as”partisan punditry and running online commentary on politics “that”put forth continuously from the keyboard. “
Which brings us to SCOTUS.
“This Court’s assistance is sorely required,” Cohen’s lawyers composed in his petition to the U.S. Supreme Court. “If enabled to stand, the Cohen choice will have a chilling result on judicial speech, welcome political disturbance in the judicial branch, weaken the guideline of law, and have the perverse result of impugning the stability of the judiciary.”
This stopped working to sway the justices, who rejected cert and sent out the now-former judge on his method, leaving him to find out how to spend for retirement after his pensions were removed away.
He truly has nobody to blame however himself– if Cohen wished to keep publishing like a Democrat activist, he most likely must’ve stuck to being one.
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