Being a Supreme Court justice is a pretty sweet gig.The Court typically hears about 60 cases a year, plus a smattering of “shadow docket” cases that receive expedited review. Like schoolchildren, the justices take their summers off — typically wrapping up their pending cases in June and the...
The extraordinary showdown at Thursday’s Philadelphia school board meeting — in which members voted to close 17 schools and renovate 169 others despite being protested by lawmakers and students — laid bare a major rift between City Council and the school district and prompted numerous quest...