Latest Stories By Jessica Calefati

Lawyers from the Philadelphia region played starring roles in the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump, who was acquitted of inciting the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol attack.  U.S. Rep. Madeleine Dean, a second-term Montgomery County Democrat, was one of the House impeachment managers who prosecuted the case against Trump. Bruce L. Castor Jr., a former […]

When the New York Times reported that Rep. Scott Perry (R., Pa.) was connected to a failed plot to overturn Georgia’s presidential election results, Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro suggested Perry had run afoul of an obscure section of the Constitution. “Rep. Perry ought to familiarize himself with Section 3 of the 14th Amendment of […]

In the days since President Donald Trump lost his bid for reelection, he has relentlessly and falsely attacked the result in Pennsylvania and other battleground states as the product of widespread fraud. His assaults culminated last week in a 46-minute videotaped screed full of demonstrable falsehoods. Politicians routinely exaggerate or misrepresent the facts, but never […]

A few days after Pennsylvania announced a broad mask mandate to combat a surge in coronavirus cases, bloggers expressed shock that the far-reaching rules might apply to professional football players.  One viral tweet says:  “Are people nationally aware that the Steelers, Eagles, Penn State, etc. and their opponents will evidently be required to wear masks […]

With less than 100 days until Election Day, Vice President Mike Pence returned to Pennsylvania on July 30 for the second time this month and delivered a campaign speech to an enthusiastic crowd of law enforcement officers and their supporters. Recent polls show President Donald Trump losing ground to Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee. […]

By May 15, more than half of Pennsylvania’s counties will have lifted restrictions that kept businesses shuttered and residents stuck at home since the coronavirus swept through the state in early March. People in those 37 counties, including Allegheny, Indiana, and Westmoreland, will once again be allowed to gather in small groups and patronize some […]

A top government scientist went on Good Morning America last week and told millions of viewers that Philadelphia and other nearby cities had become coronavirus hot spots of great concern to the Trump administration. “We are concerned about the metro area of Washington, and Baltimore, and we’re concerned about the Philadelphia area,” White House Coronavirus […]

The Inquirer is partnering with PolitiFact, the nonpartisan fact-checking website operated by the nonprofit Poynter Institute for Media Studies. The Inquirer will be PolitiFact’s exclusive partner in Pennsylvania, a critical swing state in the 2020 presidential election. Through the work of an Inquirer reporter dedicated to this effort, and collaborating with other reporters and editors […]