By Kirsten Adshead | Wisconsin Reporter MADISON — The loss, Rabbi Isaac Serotta said, came with a lesson. “If I learned something from the process, it is how important the vote of one single justice can be,” Serotta, formerly of Milwaukee, who now resides in Illinois, wrote in an email to Wisconsin Reporter on Wednesday. [...]

  By Andrew Thomason | Illinois Statehouse News SPRINGFIELD — Lawmakers are working to erase a state prohibition on recording police in public that carries the same penalties as trafficking in drugs.

Still waiting official ruling from state’s highest court   By Eric Boehm | PA Independent   HARRISBURG — Michele Vaughn remembered getting the call about an hour before the Chester County Democratic Committee held its endorsement meeting last Wednesday.

By Eric Boehm | PA Independent

HARRISBURG — As Pennsylvania embarks on uncharted political territory, Republicans want to correct the unconstitutional parts of the new state House and Senate maps before the primary election.

By Scott Reeder | Illinois Statehouse News SPRINGFIELD — It is time for Illinois courts to become more transparent by allowing cameras into courtrooms, Illinois Chief Justice Thomas Kilbride told Illinois Statehouse News in an exclusive interview.   On Tuesday, the state Supreme Court is expected to announce it will allow trial court proceedings to be filmed and tape [...]