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Judge denies Trump campaign's attempt to challenge Pa. voting laws, but appeal is coming
PITTSBURGH – A federal judge in Pittsburgh has denied an attempt by President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign to overcome state laws governing mail-in voting, ballot signatures and election poll watchers, ruling it had not proved allegations of potential voter fraud statewide. -
Boockvar asks Pa. Supreme Court to use 'King's Bench' authority to intercede in Trump's mail-in ballot lawsuit
PITTSBURGH – The state’s top election official is not only seeking summary judgment in the lawsuit brought by President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign against herself and county election boards in Pennsylvania, but the intervention of the state Supreme Court, in arguing that the campaign’s claims are “legally flawed and fatally unsupported.” -
Trump campaign, opponents move for judgment in lawsuit over Pa. mail-in ballots
PITTSBURGH – The battle between President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign and county election boards in Pennsylvania continues, just before the deadline in which a stay in the case can be requested to be lifted, and with less than a month to go before the presidential election on Nov. 3. -
Trump campaign update: Judge denies injunction to segregate drop-box ballots, as Pa. Supreme Court's ruling looms
PITTSBURGH – President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign will not be granted an injunction to segregate any presidential election ballots submitted in drop boxes throughout Pennsylvania since the state Supreme Court may rule on their validity prior to the election, according to a federal judge. -
Trump campaign's federal lawsuit over mail-in ballots stayed, pending decision by Commonwealth Court
PITTSBURGH – A federal judge has stayed a lawsuit from President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign over mail-in ballots until at least October, in order for state courts to first resolve questions of law over the collection and tallying of such ballots. -
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Pa. election official accuses Trump campaign of perpetuating speculation of voter fraud
PITTSBURGH – Counsel for Pennsylvania’s Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar say President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign “continues to propagate speculative predictions of widespread voter fraud and vote dilution” in its lawsuit over mail-in ballots. -
'Waiting is not an option,' says Trump campaign, in fighting Pennsylvania's mail-in ballot process
PITTSBURGH – In opposing 14 separate defendant motions to dismiss or join parties to a lawsuit over mail-in ballots, President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign says it is only “attempting to ensure that the upcoming General Election is conducted uniformly and in conformity with the Election Code” and “waiting is not an option” to resolve the matter. -
Judge allows Pa. Democratic Party, NAACP and others to intervene in Trump's mail-in ballot lawsuit
PITTSBURGH – A Pennsylvania federal judge has granted permission to a number of groups seeking to intervene in the lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign over mail-in ballots, including the Pennsylvania State Democratic Party and the NAACP Pennsylvania State Conference. -
Counties say Trump's mail-in issues will be resolved in state court, urge dismissal of federal lawsuit
PITTSBURGH – Boards of election in Bucks, Chester, Montgomery and Philadelphia counties are looking to dismiss litigation initiated by President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign over an allegedly illegal system for submitting and counting mail-in ballots. -
Trump campaign tells NAACP, League of Women Voters they have no business in its lawsuit against Pennsylvania
PITTSBURGH – Groups hoping to weigh in on the lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign over Pennsylvania’s mail-in ballot system didn’t come close to proving why they should be involved, the campaign is arguing. -
Potter County the first to defend self from Trump campaign's lawsuit over mail-in ballots
PITTSBURGH – The first of Pennsylvania’s 67 counties President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign sued for their allegedly illegal system for submitting and counting mail-in ballots has declared the complaint to be devoid of facts. -
Trump re-election campaign sues Pa. Secretary of State and all 67 county boards of election over mail-in ballots
PITTSBURGH – President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign has launched litigation against the state’s election authorities, charging the current system for submitting and counting mail-in ballots is illegal. -
Lawsuit: Counties of Delaware, Chester and Bucks aren't maintaining voter lists
HARRISBURG – A nonprofit is suing several state and county officials in Pennsylvania in order to ensure certain voters are removed from registration lists. -
Court denies care center's motion to dismiss former employee's lawsuit
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania has denied a motion to dismiss filed by The Maternal Child Consortium LLC, and Associates Home Care Inc. -
CGA Law Firm, accused of malpractice, says bank knew loan was a bad deal all along
LANCASTER – A York law firm is seeking the dismissal of a lawsuit by a bank that accused it of legal malpractice after the default of a $7 million loan. -
Bill to increase mandatory retirement age for judges advances to House
HARRISBURG - A bill to amend the state constitution and raise the mandatory retirement -
Two Pa. legislators introduce bills to change mandatory judicial retirement age
Two Pennsylvania legislators are pushing to change a provision in the state constitution -
Two more Pa. judges join suit challenging mandatory judiciary retirement age
Additional Pennsylvania judges have apparently joined in on the litigation challenging the -
Pa. judges, including five from Phila., sue over mandatory judicial retirement age
A handful of Pennsylvania trial court judges, including four Philadelphia Common Pleas -
Commonwealth Court rejects lawyer's attempt to remove Obama from Pa. primary election ballot
A state appellate court panel late last week rejected a request by a Philadelphia-area attorney to get President Obama kicked off the April primary election ballot.