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Open carry of long guns is generally legal across Pennsylvania without a license, but Philadelphia has long been treated as an exception that required a license to carry—open or concealed—on public st...
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has not yet resolved Commonwealth v. Sumpter and has not issued a statewide ruling invalidating Philadelphia’s open‑carry licensing rule; the Pennsylvania Superior Court...
The Pennsylvania Superior Court, in Commonwealth v. Sumpter, vacated Riyadh Sumpter’s conviction and held that 18 Pa.C.S. § 6108—the statute requiring a special license to openly carry a firearm in Ph...
Pennsylvania law routinely imposes life imprisonment for first- and second-degree murder, including felony-murder convictions, and in practice many of those life terms carry no possibility of parole, ...
Executive summary: The Pennsylvania Supreme Court–selected 2022 congressional map, known as the Carter or “least-change” plan, modestly reshaped districts and helped Democrats win nine of 17 U.S. Hous...