NEWSLANC EDITOR: Some of our readers have been confusing everyone’s right to represent themselves in court for being allowed to represent others. Here is a Wikipedia report on the requirements to practice law (vis a vis others) in the USA. Main article: Admission to the bar in the United States Regulation of the legal […]
LETTER: Trump is almost as dumb as Palin
Trump is for or against whatever is hot for the day… I have a degree in physics. I demand more gray matter than what I see from Trump. Rich with dad’s help? Yes. Smart? Hell no. Palin and him together yesterday is a joke. She is an utter moron and he is close behind in […]
LETTER: Calls for term limits to get career politicians out of office
The Republicans have been running the state of Pa for a long time and what have they done for the working class? The MAJORITY elected a Democratic Governor and the MAJORITY Republicans are doing the same thing that they are doing in Washington: shooting down everything he trys to do. it’s time to put […]
Congressman Joe Pitts and 30 county commissioners endorse Scott Martin for PA Senate
LANCASTER COUNTY, PA – Scott Martin, who is running for State Senate in the 13th District of Pennsylvania, today announced that he has been endorsed by Congressman Joe Pitts (R-16), as well as nearly 30 Republican County Commissioners from across Pennsylvania. “Scott Martin is the most qualified, conservative choice. His proven record of putting […]
Misconduct board argues AG Kane’s law license should remain suspended
WALKILEAKS / AP: The office that investigates misconduct by lawyers is arguing that Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane waited too long to complain about state Supreme Court Justice Michael Eakin’s participation with four other justices in suspending Ms. Kane’s law license last fall. The Office of Disciplinary Counsel filed an 18-page response Wednesday, saying justices […]
KEISLING: Lancaster County newspaper publisher disbarred before becoming state attorney general
AG William Hensel caught Philly Inquirer bribing city treasurer by Bill Keisling Note to readers: The Pennsylvania Senate plans to invoke a little-known “Direct Address” clause to remove Attorney General Kathleen Kane from office. As a public service, newslanc.com is providing historical background to this provision and the Pennsylvanians who last invoked it. […]
The terrible loneliness of growing up poor in Robert Putnam’s America
NEWSLANC EDITOR: The article excerpted below will be a revelation to some and an affirmation to others. We encourage reading it in its entirety. It can change your life and that of others. WASHINGTON POST: …“At the beginning you don’t know you’re doing a study of the collapse of American social life — you’re […]
Two more Pa. Supreme Court justices received offensive emails, records show
PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER: Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justices Max Baer and Kevin Dougherty were among numerous judges and court officials who received emails that a state ethics board deemed offensive when it filed misconduct charges against a third justice last month, documents show… The emails Baer received included racially insensitive images, gender stereotypes, and off-color jokes. One […]
Pennsylvania’s state prison count population drops back below 50,000 inmates
PENN LIVE: …The prison population started to level off after the implementation of changes made possible by the 2012 Justice Reinvestment Act, [John] Wetzel said, which allowed courts to steer more low-level offenders away from state prisons through the use of electronic monitoring programs, halfway houses and the like. “When you put low-risk offenders in […]
LETTER: Trump will kill off our Mid-East enemies.
If Trump gets elected, I would hope that he has the same, uh, guts as POTUS Harry Truman did, to treat our enemies in the middle east with the deadliest of warfare possible, with the Intent to Defeat them, so as to spare our Military lives from being wasted. EDITOR: The only problem would […]
Obama struggling with immigration rules and cruelties of deportation
WASHINGTON POST: …While the raids continue with administration support, White House aides announced an expanded State Department partnership with the United Nations to resettle Central American refugees in the United States and elsewhere, and Vice President Biden traveled to the region last week to meet with the presidents of Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador. “The […]
Rush Says Trump Makes ‘Strategic Error’: Cruz ‘Not Nasty’
NEWSMAX: …”Whenever a Republican or conservative attacks a fellow Republican or conservative using the same language or the same approach that Democrats and liberals would, that’s a huge red flag,” [Rush Limbaugh] said. Limbaugh’s admonition comes on the heels of another conservative commentator’s warning to Trump. In a Facebook post on Saturday, talk-show host Mark […]
Supporters of Trump vs. advocates of Obama: More class anger than racist
By Robert Field While on vacation, we had time to reflect on why Donald Trump is polling so high with ‘gray’ and ‘blue collar’ Americans, and is apparently the candidate of choice of 25% to 35% of Republican voters. Our decades of involvement with the construction industry gives us special insight. President Barack Obama is a graduate with […]
Impeachment as stipulated in the Pennsylvania Constituition
“Power of Impeachment Section 4. The House of Representatives shall have the sole power of impeachment. Trial of Impeachments Section 5. All impeachments shall be tried by the Senate. When sitting for that purpose the Senators shall be upon oath or affirmation. No person shall be convicted without the concurrence of two-thirds of the members […]