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Government Accountability

Marisa Shuter, the landlord tenant officer for Municipal Court. (Facebook)
PlanPhilly
Politics & Policy

City Council to investigate officer that executes court’s evictions, citing ‘conflicts of interest’

The court-appointed lawyer employs armed deputies to perform lockouts.

5 years ago

U.S. Attorney General William Barr, seen here in Phoenix on Sept. 10, called his colleagues at the Justice Department a
NPR
Courts & Law

Barr blasts his own prosecutors: ‘All power is vested in the Attorney General’

Barr didn't mention particular prosecutions, but he's faced steady criticism over his decisions to intervene in cases to help people close to President Trump.

5 years ago

Protesters hold signs about the 2020 census at a rally in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., in 2019. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call via Getty Images)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Trump administration appeals to Supreme Court over blocked census memo

Trump is attempting to exclude unauthorized immigrants from the census numbers used to determine each state's share of seats in Congress.

5 years ago

Former Trump Campaign official Michael Caputo, center, joined by his attorney Dennis C. Vacco, right, leaves after a three-hour interview by Senate Intelligence Committee staff that is investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 1, 2018. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Politics & Policy

Trump appointee taking medical leave from HHS after accusations of political meddling

The Trump appointee also was accused of trying to muzzle a scientific weekly put out by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

5 years ago

NPR
Politics & Policy

Congressional inquiry faults Boeing and FAA failures for deadly 737 Max plane crashes

An investigation into the plane finds a "disturbing pattern" of Boeing design flaws, management failures and "grossly insufficient oversight by the FAA."

5 years ago

Senate President Pro Tempore Joe Scarnati, (R-Jefferson), walks through the Pennsylvania Capitol. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy
Spotlight PA

Top Pa. Republican’s campaign sues journalists over public records costs

Senate President Pro Tempore Joseph Scarnati's campaign is seeking $6,070 from The Caucus, Caucus Bureau Chief Brad Bumsted, and Spotlight PA reporter Angela Couloumbis.

5 years ago

Sens. Dan Sullivan (left) and Lisa Murkowski, both Republicans from Alaska, have joined Sen. Brian Schatz, a Democrat from Hawaii, in introducing a bipartisan bill that would extend reporting deadlines for 2020 census results. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call via Getty Images)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Bipartisan Senate push to extend census begins weeks before count is set to end

A bipartisan group of senators is offering a potential solution to a scheduling conundrum plaguing the 2020 census.

5 years ago

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., center, walks to her office, Monday, Sept. 14, 2020, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Politics & Policy

Pelosi: House to stay in session until COVID-19 rescue pact

Pelosi told her Democratic colleagues on a morning conference call that “we have to stay here until we have a bill.”

5 years ago

Pennsylvania Senate Majority Leader Jake Corman. (Jose F. Moreno/Philadelphia Inquirer)
Politics & Policy
Spotlight PA

Top Pa. GOP lawmaker taps politically connected lobbyist to be chief of staff

The lobbyist, recently hired by Senate Majority Leader Jake Corman, worked for the firm that runs the lawmaker’s political campaigns.

5 years ago

The first open meeting of the Philadelphia Board of Elections since June 22 took place in front of four members of the public, in the loading dock of the new voting machine warehouse at 3500 Scotts Lane in East Falls. (YouTube)
Politics & Policy

Philly election officials said a contract barred them from releasing transcripts. It didn’t.

Philadelphia’s City Commissioners haven’t been releasing transcriptions of their meetings, saying a contract with their stenographer prevents it. Turns out, it doesn’t.

5 years ago

Pennsylvania Capitol in Harrisburg
Politics & Policy

Pa. lawmakers take record before voters under new election rules

With less than two months to go, homebound voters may soon find candidates at their doorstep.

5 years ago

U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos backed a rule that would have increased private schools' share of CARES Act dollars from $127 million to $1.5 billion, according to one analysis. (Yuri Gripas/Abaca Press/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
NPR
Education

DeVos loses latest fight over rerouting aid to private school students

Plaintiffs in the lawsuit, led by the NAACP, argued that the money was meant to be distributed to public school districts based on how many low-income students they serve.

5 years ago

President Trump, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross (center) and U.S. Attorney General William Barr walk into the White House Rose Garden for a July 2019 press conference on the census. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
NPR
Courts & Law

Court blocks Trump’s attempt to change who counts for allocating House seats

Trump's memorandum has sparked a total of eight legal challenges around the country.

5 years ago

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., center, approaches the microphones accompanied by, from left, Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., and Sen. Todd Young, R-Ind., at the start of a news conference, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Politics & Policy

GOP’s slimmed-down virus bill expected to fail in Senate

A scaled-back GOP coronavirus rescue package appears certain to fail in a Senate test vote Thursday.

5 years ago

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy
Politics & Policy

Report: Postal Service changes delay prescription drugs

The report contradicts public claims by Louis DeJoy that the recent moves he imposed “should not have impacted anybody.

5 years ago

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