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FILE - In this May 12, 2021 file photo, Gov. Tom Wolf speaks at an event in Mechanicsburg, Pa. Beyond the local races on ballots, Pennsylvania’s primary election will determine the future of a governor’s authority during disaster declarations. Voters statewide Tuesday, May 18 will decide four separate ballot questions, including two on whether to give state lawmakers much more power over disaster declarations. (AP Photo/Marc Levy)
Pennsylvania's spring primary: ballot issues, judicial races

By Marc Levy May. 15, 2021 08:32 AM EDT

FILE - In this Nov. 6, 2020, file photo the Supreme Court is seen as sundown in Washington. The Supreme Court says it will not hear a case out of Pennsylvania related to the 2020 election, a case that had lingered while similar election challenges had already been rejected by the justices. The high court directed a lower court to dismiss the case as moot. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
Supreme Court rejects lingering 2020 election challenge case

Apr. 19, 2021 10:17 AM EDT

Editorial Roundup: Pennsylvania

By The Associated Press Feb. 03, 2021 09:00 AM EST
Philadelphia Inquirer. Feb. 1, 2021. Editorial: After barely surviving 2020, Pa.’s democracy might not survive the Republican effort to...

FILE - President Donald Trump, left, remains on stage as then-Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden, right, walks away Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020, at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn. President Trump's extraordinary effort to overturn Joe Biden's win in Wisconsin returns to the courtroom on Friday, Dec. 11, 2020 with hearings in federal and state lawsuits seeking to invalidate hundreds of thousands of ballots and give the GOP-controlled Legislature the power to name Trump the winner. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, file)
EXPLAINER: Dismissed election case pushed debunked claims

By Nomaan Merchant And Alanna Durkin Richer Dec. 12, 2020 12:55 AM EST

FILE - President Donald Trump, left, remains on stage as then-Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden, right, walks away Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020, at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn. President Trump's extraordinary effort to overturn Joe Biden's win in Wisconsin returns to the courtroom on Friday, Dec. 11, 2020 with hearings in federal and state lawsuits seeking to invalidate hundreds of thousands of ballots and give the GOP-controlled Legislature the power to name Trump the winner. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, file)
EXPLAINER: Dismissed election case pushed debunked claims

By Nomaan Merchant And Alanna Durkin Richer Dec. 11, 2020 03:01 PM EST

FILE - In this Sept. 24, 2018 file photo, accuser Andrea Constand returns to the courtroom during a lunch break at the sentencing hearing for Bill Cosby at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa. Cosby, 83, has spent more than two years in prison since he was convicted of drugging and sexually assaulting Constand, a Temple University employee he had taken under his wing, in 2004. Now the Pennsylvania Supreme Court is set to hear his appeal of the conviction on Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020. The arguments will focus on the trial judge's decision to let five other accusers testify for the prosecution. (David Maialetti/The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP, Pool)
Cosby's sex assault conviction goes before high-level court

By Maryclaire Dale Dec. 01, 2020 12:15 PM EST

FILE - In this Sept. 23, 2018 file photo, attorney, Gloria Allred, center, along with her clients, Chelan Lasha, left, and Lise-Lotte Lublin, right, both of whom have accused Bill Cosby of sexual assault, talk to the media during a press conference at the Le Meridien Hotel in Philadelphia, Pa. Cosby has spent more than two years in prison since he was convicted of sexual assault in the first celebrity trial of the #MeToo era. Now the Pennsylvania Supreme Court is set to hear his appeal of the conviction on Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020. The arguments will focus on the trial judge's decision to let five other accusers testify for the prosecution. (Jose F. Moreno/The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP, File)
Key question in Cosby appeal: Does defendant's past matter?

By Maryclaire Dale Nov. 29, 2020 09:48 AM EST

An election worker sorts mailed-in ballots at the King County Elections office Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020, in Renton, Wash. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
GOP maneuvers to challenge battleground absentee ballots

By Mark Sherman Nov. 03, 2020 12:40 AM EST

President Donald Trump dances as he walks off stage after speaking during a campaign rally at Miami-Opa-locka Executive Airport, Monday, Nov. 2, 2020, in Opa-locka, Fla. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Trump promises court fight over Pennsylvania absentee votes

By Mark Sherman Nov. 02, 2020 12:21 PM EST

A woman and man pray outside the Supreme Court on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2020, the day after the Senate confirmed Amy Coney Barrett to become a Supreme Court Justice. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Supreme Court issues flurry of last-minute election orders

By Mark Sherman Oct. 29, 2020 12:31 PM EDT

Editorial Roundup: New York

By The Associated Press Oct. 21, 2020 05:34 PM EDT
Recent editorials of statewide and national interest from New York’s newspapers: The Long Island Six needs to deliver for residents ...

Editorial Roundup: US

By The Associated Press Oct. 21, 2020 02:10 PM EDT
Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ Oct. 21 Los Angeles Times on...

Republicans aim at Pennsylvania's Democratic majority court

By Marc Levy Jul. 15, 2020 05:49 PM EDT
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Out of power in two of three branches of government in Pennsylvania, Republicans who control the state Legislature completed the first...

Pennsylvania court turns down lawmakers' bid to end shutdown

By Mark Scolforo Jul. 01, 2020 04:59 PM EDT
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania’s high court on Wednesday ruled against an effort by Republican state lawmakers to end Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf’s pandemic...

High court to decide lawsuit seeking end to disaster order

Jun. 17, 2020 01:28 PM EDT
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania's highest court on Wednesday granted the Democratic governor's request and took over a lawsuit by legislative Republicans...

Fen Bohen, 9, of Gibsonia, participates in an obstacle course with fellow campers Thursday, June 11, 2020, at Camp Guyasuta in Sharpsburg, Pa. Camp Guyasuta's STEM Adventure Day Camp started for the summer on Monday, one of a handful of camps to open with adjusted protocols due to the COVID-19 pandemic. (Michael M. Santiago/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP)
Wolf asks Pennsylvania Supreme Court to uphold shutdown

By Mark Scolforo And Michael Rubinkam Jun. 12, 2020 12:30 PM EDT