Posts Tagged ‘Pennsylvania law’
ACLU Going After Pennsylvania Over Misleading Voter ID Ads

ACLU Going After Pennsylvania Over Misleading Voter ID Ads

As we all know by now—or, at least, should—the Voter ID law is not in effect in Pennsylvania during the 2012 election. Commonwealth Court Judge Robert E. Simpson stayed the law through 2012, and it will be dealt with again in early 2013. Until then, though the Voter ID law still exists, it is irrelevant. But don’t tell the Pennsylvania government that....

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There Are Some Shocking Rape-Friendly Policies in Pennsylvania

By now you’ve heard about Missouri Republican Todd Akin claiming that it was “really rare” for a woman to become pregnant from rape, and following up that ridiculous assertion with an 18-word train wreck: “If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.” We also know that Akin is far from the first...

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