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Kim Ward, the GOP’s majority leader of Pennsylvania’s state Senate, will become the first woman to serve as the chamber’s highest-ranking member, Republicans said Tuesday.

Lawyers for Pennsylvania Senate Republicans are weighing in on an election-related case before the U.S. Supreme Court.

The moves have their roots in Republican complaints about drop box security and past election funding from a group linked to Facebook.

“It just comes down to we can’t agree, the governor’s going to veto anything that’s not what he produced and the courts will end up drawing maps.”

Democrats could have the upper hand if proposals for state House and Senate maps hold after changes and potential court scrutiny.

The group of four bills would, among other things, make sexual consent policies clearer and offer protective services to victimized students.

As the details of the next annual spending plan are hammered out, education funding may be both a sticking point and a tool for aggrieved lawmakers.

Republicans are faulting the administration of Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf for Pennsylvania’s slow COVID-10 vaccine rollout even as Wolf himself says insufficient supply is the real culprit.

Their concerns have been already litigated in court and rejected by judges, many of them Trump appointees.