Mark Scolforo

October 15, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

Democrats go into the election with a one-seat House majority, while in the Senate, Republicans have 28 seats and therefore majority control.

By Mark Scolforo/The Associated Press

4 minute read

October 14, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

Here is a look at Pennsylvania's major party candidates for attorney general, auditor general and treasurer.

By Mark Scolforo/The Associated Press

5 minute read

September 23, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

It could determine the fate of thousands of votes that could otherwise be canceled in the Nov. 5 election, when Pennsylvania is considered a critical state in the presidential contest.

By Mark Scolforo/The Associated Press

3 minute read

August 02, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

A five-judge Commonwealth Court panel heard about two hours of argument in a case that was filed in May, even though the date requirement has been upheld both by the state Supreme Court and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

By Mark Scolforo/The Associated Press

4 minute read

May 22, 2023 | The Legal Intelligencer

Democrats maintained their narrow Pennsylvania House majority May 16 by winning a special election and along with it continued control over how the chamber will handle abortion, gun rights and election law legislation.

By Mark Scolforo, The Associated Press

3 minute read

March 08, 2023 | The Legal Intelligencer

Democratic Rep. Mike Zabel of Delaware County said in the letter to Democratic Speaker Joanna McClinton that his resignation will take effect March 16, leaving enough time for her to order that the vacancy be filled during the May primary.

By Mark Scolforo, The Associated Press

5 minute read

March 06, 2023 | The Legal Intelligencer

Philadelphia state Rep. Joanna McClinton on Feb. 28 became the first woman to serve as speaker of the Pennsylvania House, ascending to the chamber's top position on the strength of a fresh one-vote Democratic majority.

By Mark Scolforo, The Associated Press

3 minute read

February 13, 2023 | The Legal Intelligencer

Voters who kept three Pittsburgh-area state House seats in Democratic hands last week effectively also flipped control away from the Republican majority that has run the chamber for more than a decade, one of a handful of legislative bodies across the United States where partisan control shifted in recent months.

By Mark Scolforo, The Associated Press

3 minute read

December 09, 2022 | The Legal Intelligencer

Democrats who barely won back a majority of seats in the Pennsylvania House in November moved to take control of the chamber on Dec. 7 and replace one of their incumbents who died and two others who won higher office.

By Brooke Schultz and Mark Scolforo, The Associated Press

4 minute read

November 28, 2022 | The Legal Intelligencer

A Pennsylvania judge has recommended the state's high court impose civil contempt penalties against a Republican-majority county government that this summer secretly allowed a third party to copy data from voting machines used in the 2020 election lost by former President Donald Trump.

By Mark Scolforo, The Associated Press

2 minute read