Perhaps the ignominious end to Brian Buglio's career will alert thin-skinned cops to the perils of trying to punish people for constitutionally protected speech.
Voters in Pittsburgh banned no-knock police raids and solitary confinement too.
New Mexico could be the 16th state to legalize pot, while Texas considers tinkering with its onerous penalties and Pennsylvania continues to arrest cannabis consumers.
But it would continue the politicization of the means of voting and make it harder to vote.
The Board of Pardons recommended Bruce Norris’ release. A signature didn’t come in time.
In Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, the biggest story was all the reporters looking for a story.
And it isn't alone. Pennsylvania has banned indoor dining through the end of the year, but dozens of businesses are banding together to defy the mandate.
The justices declined to intervene on behalf of Republicans who challenged absentee voting in Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania's response to Rep. Kelly's effort to invalidate Pennsylvania's election results.
The president's rhetoric and his campaign's actions are corrosive, but even the most powerful man on the planet can't control America's diffuse election system.
Even if the GOP's complaints are valid, they do not prove a vast anti-Trump conspiracy.
No, late-arriving mail-in ballots won't swing the election's outcome. No, Joe Biden's vote totals in suburban Philadelphia aren't suspiciously high.
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The newest lawsuit in Pennsylvania is a longshot attempt to argue that all mail-in voting is unconstitutional because it differs from traditional, in-person voting. It's likely to fail.
Biden appears to be winning, but the election is far from settled.
Plus: Republicans denounce Trump fraud allegations, Trump campaign mounts multiple legal challenges, and more...
This isn't fraud. This isn't a scheme to steal the election. It is the very predictable outcome of the president's own words and actions.
Trump's tweets are muddying the process. His legal challenges deserve to be heard, and all votes will continue to be counted.
If Trump loses his bid for re-election, it will be because Rust Belt voters abandoned him after four years of misguided economic policies.
And maybe a lot longer, since the Supreme Court left the door open to re-hearing a Republican-led challenge seeking to discard late-arriving absentee ballots.
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Across 14 states that track party affiliations of absentee-ballot-voters, 56 percent of mail-in votes have been cast by Democrats and only 23 percent have been cast by Republicans.
Two courts say COVID-19 lockdowns in Michigan and Pennsylvania were unconstitutional.
There are many unique challenges facing election officials this year, but widespread malfeasance isn't one of them.
Chris Wallace asked both candidates on Tuesday night if they would urge "supporters to stay calm during this extended period, not to engage in any civil unrest." Trump rejected the premise.
If so, Republicans, Democrats, the state legislature, the state Supreme Court, and Gov. Tom Wolf will all share the blame.
Population-wide lockdown orders are "such a dramatic inversion of the concept of liberty in a free society as to be nearly presumptively unconstitutional" wrote U.S. District Judge William Stickman IV
Public officials are routinely undermining the legitimacy of coronavirus countermeasures by ignoring their own (often arbitrary) rules.
Finding a steady job is the best way to keep a person from going back to prison or jail. These changes make a lot of sense.
False testimony and prosecutorial misconduct put Walter Ogrod on death row.
Would you be surprised if you learned the former district attorney was caught leasing an SUV with asset forfeiture funds?
The sooner everyone else recognizes those limits, the sooner we can shift to policies that balance public health and economic freedom.
Officials in six Pennsylvania counties say they will allow businesses to reopen without permission from the state government. Expect more of that.
Border counties are now prohibited from selling to anyone without proof of residency.
For all the good prohibition might do to reduce domestic violence, it won't actually solve that problem and it will certainly cause others.
Ogrod remains on death row even though the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office has called for his conviction to be overturned. He probably has COVID-19.
Not every apparent violation of a quarantine order is a risk to other people, and not all need to be (or can be) enforced equally.
The coronavirus outbreak offers another view of the limits of central planning.
The churn of new emergency regulatory waivers and restrictions is causing confusion for American manufacturers and freight haulers.
The case illustrates the injustice and irrationality of Pennsylvania's "zero tolerance" approach to stoned driving.
"They're trying to force us to put our children in the district school," says Stefaine D’Amico, whose three kids attend online classes that could be abolished. "That's not fair."
Robert Wetherbee says steel tariffs might force his business to shutter. But instead of asking for the tariffs to be lifted, he wants special treatment.
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