PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER: Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen G. Kane will not defend a new law that effectively stripped municipalities of the right to enact their own gun measures, raising the prospect that the controversial statute might not take hold.
A spokeswoman on Thursday said Kane had exercised her authority to decline representing the state in a challenge to the law filed by Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Lancaster, and area lawmakers.
Instead, she is deferring to lawyers working under Gov. Corbett – who in six weeks will relinquish their offices to a new Democratic administration… (more)
