K. Leroy Irvis, Pa.’s first Black House speaker, blazed trails and battled discrimination | Column
Updated Mar 14, 2021;
Posted Mar 14, 2021
K. Leroy Irvis, Pennsylvania House speaker for eight years in the 1970s and 1980s, poses in the House chamber in Harrisburg in 1985. The trailblazing lawmaker died 15 years ago this month. (Associated Press file photo)
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On the South Lawn of the Capitol Complex at Fourth and Walnuts streets stands a monument.
Dedicated last year, it depicts four Black figures who had ties to the Old 8th Ward, a predominantly African American and immigrant neighborhood in Harrisburg that was removed when the Capitol Complex expanded in the early 20th century.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court will have an open seat in 2021. Kevin Brobson is endorsed by Republicans, while Democrats are endorsing Maria McLaughlin.
Pennsylvania’s two major political parties have endorsed statewide appellate court judges to run in this year’s election for an open state Supreme Court.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) Pennsylvania's two major political parties have endorsed statewide appellate court judges to run in this year's election for an open state Supreme Court seat, perhaps the.
After U.S. Capitol violence, Sen. Bob Casey Jr. calls for President Trump to be removed from office
Updated Jan 08, 2021;
U.S. Sen. Bob Casey Jr., D-Pa., said Thursday that President Donald Trump is a threat to national security and should be removed from office following the violence at the U.S. Capitol.
Casey, Pennsylvania’s senior senator, called on Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th amendment of the Constitution and remove Trump from office. Trump’s term ends Jan. 20 when President-elect Joe Biden takes office but Casey said the president needs to be removed right away.
“President Trump is a threat to our domestic and national security,” Casey said in a statement.