The $47.6 billion package includes a compromise on plans to fix Pennsylvania’s unconstitutional school funding system.
The state has an obligation to provide representation for criminal defendants who can’t afford one.
Democratic State Rep. Chris Rabb’s bill would allow courts across the commonwealth to sentence offenders for certain crimes to participate in restorative justice programs.
The 11-bill package includes solar for schools, prevailing wages for green energy, and e-waste recycling.
The groups, including the state conference of the NAACP and the League of Women Voters, argued the court’s 3-1 decision could disenfranchise “untold thousands” of Pennsylvania voters and millions more across the country if it is more broadly adopted.
“Let today’s ruling be another reminder that taking legal advice from Donald Trump is never a winning strategy,” said Governor Josh Shapiro.
The campaign hopes to immunize voters against misinformation and disinformation.
In a fiery campaign speech, Biden invoked what he called Donald Trump’s derelictions of duty and threats to freedom
A Crawford County resident sought school board members’ posts about an LGBTQ+ book display, one that includes calling the library exhibit “totally evil.”
CEO pay has risen nearly 35 percent since 2019 in absolute terms, while their median worker pay hasn’t even kept up with the U.S. inflation rate.
These groups are a new and harder-to-detect form of white supremacist organizing that merges extremist ideology with fitness and combat sports culture.
“I would like to know if the Bucks County Intermediate Unit, the other school districts in Pennsylvania and in Bucks County, might be interested in starting a class action lawsuit against the state for the calculable amount of money that we are losing as a school district ‘cause it’s going to blow up everybody’s budget,” Centennial School District Board Member Michael Hartline.
“This is about the president of the United States and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections,” said Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker.
“Discarding thousands of ballots every election is not a reasonable trade-off in view of the date requirement’s extremely limited and unlikely capacity to detect and deter fraud,” the appeals court panel wrote.
