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Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf (Alejandro A. Alvarez/Philadelphia Inquirer)
Government Accountability
Pennsylvania
Spotlight PA

Pa. GOP lawmakers want voters to give them the power to end governor’s emergency orders

The proposed constitutional amendment is the result of long-festering resentment against Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf over his actions to control the coronavirus pandemic.

5 years ago

National Guard troops are inside the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center to reinforce security Wednesday at the Capitol in Washington. It comes a week after an insurrection at the Capitol. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo)
NPR
Elections
National

About 20,000 National Guard members to deploy for inauguration, officials say

"I think you can expect to see somewhere upwards of beyond 20,000 members of the National Guard that will be here in the footprint of the District of Columbia."

5 years ago

The University of Pennsylvania campus in West Philadelphia.
Higher Education
Pennsylvania
Billy Penn

How UPenn could revoke Trump’s Wharton degree

The bylaws don’t have a clause for incitement of insurrection, but there’s always the question of cheating on the SAT.

5 years ago

Pro-Trump insurrectionists storm the Capitol, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington.
Pennsylvania
Politics

House votes to impeach Trump for ‘incitement of insurrection’ — Pa. delegation split

All nine Democrats voted to impeach the president on a charge of “incitement of insurrection,” and all nine Republicans voted against Trump’s removal.

5 years ago

New Jersey Rep. Mikie Sherrill
Government Accountability
New Jersey
Public Safety
NBC10

N.J. Rep. Mikie Sherrill: Lawmakers held ‘reconnaissance’ tours day before pro-Trump rioters attacked

Rep. Mikie Sherrill said she intends to take action against members of congress who she saw taking groups through the Capitol on Jan. 5.

5 years ago

Pro-Trump insurrectionists try to break through a police barrier, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, at the Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
Radio Times
Criminal Justice
Law
Technology

Insurrection, extremism and social media

We examine the extremist groups and spread of disinformation and conspiracy theories online that fueled the insurrection at the Capitol.

Air Date: January 13, 2021 10:00 am

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The Pennsylvania state Capitol in winter
Keystone Crossroads
Law
Pennsylvania

House GOP advances plan to elect Pa. judges by region; opponents say it would ‘gerrymander the court’

Republicans who back the measure say the idea would give voters in rural Pennsylvania a greater voice to elect judges.

5 years ago

Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia shouts at journalists as she goes through security outside the House Chamber at Capitol Hill.
NPR
Public Safety

Republicans lash out against new security measures at the Capitol

Several lawmakers were visibly upset Tuesday by the new security system at the Capitol complex that requires them to walk through metal detectors.

5 years ago

Pro-Trump rioters try to break through a police barrier
National
Public Safety

FBI says it warned about prospect of violence ahead of Capitol riot

A Jan. 5 report from an FBI’s field office forecast, in detail, the chances that extremists could commit “war” in Washington the following day.

5 years ago

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., leads the final vote of the impeachment of President Donald Trump, for his role in inciting an angry mob to storm the Congress
National
Politics

Trump impeached after Capitol riot in historic second charge

Trump faces a single charge, “incitement of insurrection," after telling a mob of loyalists to, as he put it, “fight like hell” against election results.

5 years ago

(Dan Gleiter/PennLive)
Pennsylvania
Policing
Race & Ethnicity
Spotlight PA

Pa. State Police resume tracking racial data during traffic stops in response to Spotlight PA report

The data is critical to detecting potential racial profiling, but the agency had quietly stopped collecting it in 2012.

5 years ago

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy presents his state of the state address, for later broadcast, at the Trenton War Memorial in Trenton, N.J. January, 10, 2021 (Ed Murray/Gov. Phil Murphy Flickr)
New Jersey

Murphy again slams pro-Trump rioters in N.J. State of the State speech

Although the Democrat collaborated with Trump during the early months of the pandemic, Murphy has vocally criticized him for sowing doubt about the November election results.

5 years ago

Sarah McBride was sworn into office as a Delaware state Senator on Jan. 12, 2021, becoming the state's first openly transgender lawmaker. (Photo by Kyle Grantham)
Delaware
Elections

Sarah McBride and a diverse group of new Delaware lawmakers are sworn in

Delaware’s first transgender state senator was among those who took the oath of office virtually on the first day of the legislative session.

5 years ago

Pa. State Sen. Doug Mastriano, left, seen at the protest outside of the Capitol by Rick Saccone, right.
Keystone Crossroads
Government Accountability
Pennsylvania

Mastriano campaign spent thousands on buses ahead of D.C. insurrection

The Pa. state senator is facing calls to resign after spreading misinformation about the 2020 election and orchestrating travel to D.C. on Jan 6.

5 years ago

The Delaware River in 2018. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania lawmakers sue over Delaware River drilling ban

The GOP senators want a federal court to invalidate the ban, potentially opening a sliver of NE Pa. to what their lawsuit describes as $40 billion worth of natural gas.

5 years ago

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