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American politics is the most expensive game in the world. You have to pay to play. Private interests with the means to pay are uniquely positioned to...

For years the Supreme Court has resisted calls to let the public outside the courtroom listen in on its oral arguments. But live audio streams finally...

Four years ago, when Rachel Carr lost her job over a Facebook post, she hired a lawyer to argue her right to free speech shouldn’t have cost her a job...

WARREN — A former Warren County solicitor has had his license temporarily suspended by the state Supreme Court. The Disciplinary Board of the Supreme ...

WASHINGTON — On Monday, U.S. Sens. Pat Toomey. R-Pa., and Marco Rubio, R-Fla., introduced a constitutional amendment limiting the Supreme Court of the...

Judge Richard Masson has retired from his position as president judge of Elk and Cameron counties. Masson retired, effective Dec. 31, and has transiti...

HARRISBURG — The state Supreme Court on Monday named McKean County Judge John Cleland to help figure out what can be made public in a grand jury's rep...

WASHINGTON -- No Supreme Court nominee is a completely safe bet. No one -- not even the nominee himself or herself -- knows for certain how he or she ...

WASHINGTON — Pennsylvania’s senators had opposite reactions to Wednesday’s announcement that Justice Anthony Kennedy is retiring from the U.S. Supreme...

WASHINGTON — The notion of due process has been much in the news, thanks to President Trump, whose devotion to fairness is characteristically situatio...

One by one, the artifacts of President Barack Obama's rule by administrative fiat are tumbling. The latest is his signature Clean Power Plan that Envi...

HARRISBURG — The state’s highest court has denied an appeal by a Bradford man serving a sentence of 45 years in prison for raping an 11-year-old girl....

WASHINGTON — When not furrowing their collective brows about creches and displays of the Ten Commandments here and there, courts often are pondering t...

WASHINGTON — When not furrowing their collective brows about creches and displays of the Ten Commandments here and there, courts often are pondering t...

HARRISBURG — A letter from 32 Pennsylvania Senators expressing strong support for Judge Neil Gorsuch’s confirmation has been sent to U.S. Senator Pat ...

WASHINGTON -- The Senate's coming confirmation of Neil Gorsuch will improve the Supreme Court, and Democrats' incontinent opposition to him will inadv...

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration's move to rescind bathroom access protections for transgender students rests on the idea that school bathroom po...

As you might have heard, Donald Trump tweeted at a judge. The commentariat shuddered at the effrontery of it, and some worried that the foundations of...

If the law means anything, the Trump administration will succeed in overturning the so-called court ruling against its travel ban. The nationwide stay...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., said he was pleased that on Tuesday President Donald Trump nominated Judge Neil Gorsuch to serve on the Supr...