Pathologist Dr. Cyril Wecht, center, talks to the media while Bahamas’ head coroner Linda Virgil, right, and attorney Michael Scott, left, listen outside the Princess Margaret Hospital in Nassau, Bahamas, in 2006. Dr. Cyril Wecht, a pathologist and attorney whose biting cynicism and controversial positions on high-profile deaths such as President John F. Kennedy’s 1963 assassination caught the attention of …
The Supreme Court’s eradication of the constitutional right to abortion in 2022’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization had an immediate and devastating impact on gender equality in the United States. The majority vehemently rejected Dobbs’ history-only analysis, noting that, until recently, “those interpreting the law” saw women “as not only having fewer legal rights than men but also as …
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Pennsylvania’s highest court on Tuesday weighed whether the Legislature can proceed with an impeachment trial against Philadelphia’s elected progressive prosecutor and whether the court or lawmakers should determine what qualifies as misbehavior in office. Justice Christine Donohue, among the four Democratic justices at the hearing, said she was not comfortable delving “into the weeds” of what the …
HARRISBURG, Pa. — A Pennsylvania Republican-majority county government where two commissioners secretly allowed a third party to copy voting-machine data last year to help former President Donald Trump overturn his 2020 reelection defeat received contempt sanctions Wednesday from the state’s highest court. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled against Fulton County commissioners Stuart Ulsh and Randy Bunch — and their lawyers …
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The woman whose testimony secured the 2018 conviction of Bill Cosby for sexual assault has blasted the decision to overturn his decision after the star's spokesman hailed it as 'a beautiful day for women… and justice for black America'. 'Today's majority decision regarding Bill Cosby is not only disappointing but of concern in that it may discourage those who seek …