Democracy Rising PA v. Celluci

OPINION

COAVEN, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs Democracy Rising PA (“Democracy Rising”) and Tim Potts appeal from the order of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania granting Defendants’ motion to dismiss. We will affirm.

I

This appeal involves a First Amendment challenge to a Pennsylvania judicial canon governing the speech of candidates for judicial office in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania selects judges through an election process. Candidates for judicial office are selected in the first instance in a primary election, which is then followed by a…