Government Accountability

The battle over how to handle Pennsylvania’s congressional maps has even political families divided.

Now that districts have been completely overhauled, some big questions remain: just how much gerrymandering is too much?

A federal jury has found Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski guilty of corruption.

This year has been anything but predictable in Pennsylvania.

Democratic Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski faces charges including fraud, bribery, attempted extortion and lying to the FBI.

Pennsylvania's Supreme Court is declining to delay implementation of a new congressional map the justices put in place last week.

A three-judge panel declined to temporarily hold up implementation of the map put in place by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.

After lawmakers didn’t meet the court’s short deadline to fix it, justices redrew the map themselves. And analysts expect it will give Democrats stronger representation.

Pennsylvania’s new court-ordered congressional map has thrust the commonwealth into the national spotli ...

This is the third time in recent months they’ve made such an appeal in a gerrymandering case.

Now serving his fourth term, Pawlowski is charged with 54 counts of corruption, including bribery, conspiracy, fraud, extortion, and lying to the FBI. He's pleaded not guilty.

“The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has engaged in a really amazing, highly partisan, unconstitutional power grab,” he told reporters in the Capitol rotunda.

The 2rd district now appears to have nearly 10 percent fewer black voters than the corresponding district did in the previous map.

Analysts think the court-drawn map will give Democrats a shot at winning at least half of Pennsylvania’s 18 districts.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court is expected to decide Monday where Pennsylvania’s congressional boundaries will fall for the next two election cycles.