Jordan Wilkie | WITF
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Six more men were sent to Bhutan, despite the fact that they are not considered citizens of the Himalayan nation and are effectively being made stateless.
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The legislation would allow Pennsylvanians to opt out of certain data collection practices by companies and require businesses that collect data to remove consumers’ information on request.
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Bhutan accepted the deportees, but then removed them from the country without identification.
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The deportations may signal a change in diplomatic relations with Bhutan.
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The bill would prevent transgender athletes from participating in girls’ sports from grade school through college. It makes no mention of transgender boys.
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Gov. Josh Shapiro on Tuesday addressed the recent detention of Bhutanese refugees by federal immigration authorities, saying he expects the Trump administration to follow the rule of law.
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Both bills will likely face amendments on the House floor.
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Pennsylvanians want electoral reform. Voter ID’s political path forward will thread a needle.
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One-point-three million Pennsylvania voters are not registered with major political parties, so they can’t vote in primaries.
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Pennsylvania’s new attorney general said Wednesday that he had no update on an investigation his office is leading into large numbers of voter registration forms submitted to several counties in October.