The day ended in a crushing defeat for Republicans summarized by Benghazi committee chair Trey Gowdy’s admission that “she did not say anything we didn’t already know.”

Ardo said the office has not conducted its own research on precedent of the removal clause, but forwarded to reporters an article written by local Harrisburg author Bill Keisling, one of Kane’s ardent supporters. Keisling’s article highlights the 1891 case when Gov. Robert Pattison attempted to remove state Treasurer Henry Boyer and Auditor General Thomas McCamant, both duly elected row officers, who were both accused of taking bribes.

“This whole scene has prompted several observers, including women, to remark privately that Kane’s travails, many of them brought on by her own actions, will set back women in Pennsylvania political life. That may or may not be true.”

But because he felt the need to pander to the extreme right wing of his party, and perhaps he did, he turned his back on himself and from his outstanding accomplishment in broadening health care in his state of Massachusettes.

Rep. Trey Gowdy said as the questioning drew to a close. After the hearing was over, Gowdy wasn’t sure that he got all that much new information. “I don’t know that she testified that much differently today than the previous times she’s testified,” he said.

Last week Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane acknowledged that a single”raunchy, sexist (and) racist” email had “circulated among ‘a district attorney, a first assistant district attorney, a county judge, a senior deputy attorney general, an assistant U.S. attorney and a U.S. Fish and Wildlife employee, a deputy clerk for a federal judge, a lawyer with the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board and a second Common Pleas judge in Dauphin County.'”

A review of the files shows Eakin was a recipient on all the emails but only actively participated in two separate email chains, while the rest he received but did not respond to or forward. The files of emails, pictures and videos contained some crude jokes, profane language and pictures of nude women. One email included a video of a sex act. However, the two email chains in which Eakin actively participated contained jokes and photos of women, but no nudity.

Girls rushed to the front voluntarily, only a coward could not go to fight. Nurses were bold, unusual girls. There are statistics: loss among nurses was second only to losses in the infantry battalions. What, for example, it meant to pull a wounded soldier from a field fight? I’ll tell you right now ..

“It defies language and logic for the government to argue that it does not prevent California from implementing its medical marijuana laws by shutting down these … heavily regulated medical marijuana dispensaries,” Breyer wrote in the decision for MAMM v. USDOJ, which could set a precedent for how the justice system addresses state-legal protection of pot businesses.

“The Attorney General made clear that the chain of command will remain in place as it has been. She pointed out that 98 percent or so of her duties are administrative or ministerial, and she plans to continue performing those duties,” said Kane spokesman Chuck Ardo, who briefed reporters on what Kane relayed to about a dozen top aides Wednesday afternoon. A memo to staff outlining her position has not yet been written, he said.

But wait a second. According to the CRIZ statute, the City already is the guarantor of payment of all delinquent CRIZ debt.

So what Gray is simply bringing into the open is what has not been talked about, except here at NewsLanc. The City will guarantee the CRIZ bonds because it already has guaranteed repayment of the debt!

5. Pennsylvania

LNP front page along side the masthead: “Cleared: State Supreme Court Justice Michael Eakin didn’t send racy emails investigators said”

LNP heading on the Associated Press article: “Panel found Eakin Didn’t send porn”

Actual Associated Press headline: “Eakin cleared in 2014 after panel found he didn’t email porn.

By the same token, Eakin certainly could have, and should have, called off the partisan dogs attacking Kane this week over the rushed hunt for his emails that, just as obviously, were his responsibility not only in their circulation, but also in his continuing to hide them.