Lawyers for Pennslyvania Gov. Tom Wolf this week tried to persuade the state Supreme Court that the governor was within his rights to undo the former governor's late-term appointment of a Republican legislative aide to head the state Office of Open Records.
A divided Commonwealth Court ruled in June that Wolf, a Democrat, had overstepped his authority in dismissing Erik Arneson, who had been a top aide to former Senate Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi and who was involved in developing the state right-to-know law. Continue…
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