House Leaders Benninghoff and McClinton said Thursday they will try an emergency amendment process to get the measure before voters in the spring.
Pennsylvania’s elections chief isn’t saying whether Gov. Tom Wolf asked for her resignation, but she says the buck stops with her.
The path for an amendment to become law in Pennsylvania is long. The language has to pass the legislature in two consecutive sessions, then go to voters for a referendum.
The Department of State did not advertise, as required, a proposed amendment to the state constitution that would open a two-year window for litigation by survivors of child sexual abuse who have aged out of the statute of limitations for suing.
in the last few months, a handful of rank-and-file GOP lawmakers spread outright falsehoods about voter fraud.
The Democratic governor characterized “efforts by Congressional Republicans to overthrow the election results” as “disgraceful.”
President Donald Trump’s campaign spent more than a month challenging Pennsylvania’s vote count. But the ceremony making President-elect Joe Biden’s win official was, by contrast, uneventful and routine.
GOP leadership wants to the commonwealth to wait to certify the vote until a “full audit” of the election can be complete.
Some of the state’s most populous locales reported finishing their tallies Thursday. The Trump campaign and the Republican Party have filed a flurry of lawsuits over the count.
