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It started as one of those ridiculous controversies of the Trump era. In May and June 2017, then-President Donald Trump blocked a few Twitter trolls w...

How Texas fetal heartbeat bill advances cause — perhaps all the way to Supreme Court For millions of parents the world over, the image of a tiny heart...

(Editor’s note: The Era sat down with Sen. Cris Dush last week and spoke about issues impacting the 25th District. The second of two, this story focus...

As the House impeachment managers made their case that former President Donald Trump made blatantly false statements about a stolen election for the p...

In pre-internet America, there was a clear division of labor between schools and parents when it came to policing children’s conduct: If a student mis...

On Sunday, U.S. Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., announced that he received his first of two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine. In a statement released on Sunday, Cas...

One of President Donald Trump’s foremost achievements has been to erect a formidable obstacle to his own post-election legal challenges. The federal j...

HARRISBURG — Senate President Pro Tempore Joe Scarnati, R-Brockway, spoke out earlier this week on the state Supreme Court’s ruling in a case regardin...

The Supreme Court signaled Tuesday during oral argument that it won’t be striking down the whole Affordable Care Act as the Trump administration has a...

To read some of the accounts of Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation process would be to believe history had been turned on its head because her nominatio...

HARRISBURG — Committed to access to justice for Pennsylvanians with an autism spectrum disorder, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, along with the Pennsy...

Most people know that Google’s original motto was: “Don’t be evil.” Cute, right? Perhaps a more fitting summary of the company’s philosophy would have...

The slow pace of bureaucracy is a running joke in America. It’s surprising, then, how quickly the Senate has advanced the confirmation hearings for Pr...

The Supreme Court fight of the century is, so far, a fizzle. The ratio of progressive outrage over the nomination of federal Judge Amy Coney Barrett t...

HARRISBURG — In an effort to help judges navigate the complex issues involved in guardianship cases, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s Advisory Council...

Two Pennsylvania legislators have expressed very different views of the nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court. On Saturday, ...

For almost everyone in America, life has changed this year. It’s about to change much more. The federal government that resides in our nation’s capita...

Soon, we’ll know who President Trump wants to be the next Supreme Court justice. Republicans will praise her qualifications, her intellect, her judici...

Thursday’s state Supreme Court ruling granting a 3-day extension to the deadline to count mail-in ballots was a victory for Democrats, but state Repub...

Everyone knows that the Declaration of Independence guarantees Americans “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,” but less well known is the fac...