Joan Orie Melvin

PITTSBURGH (AP) - A former Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice ordered to send apology letters to every other judge in the state as part of...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - The candidates for the Pennsylvania Supreme Court outnumber the open seats by a 4-1 ratio. Never before have three seats on...

PITTSBURGH (AP) - Former Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Joan Orie Melvin has agreed to be disbarred as a result of her conviction on campaign...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania's governor says he won't appeal a state court ruling that struck down its voter identification law. Gov. Tom Corbett released...

JOAN ORIE MELVIN (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File) by Joe Mandak PITTSBURGH (AP) — Former state Supreme Court Justice Joan Orie Melvin and her sister avoided prison time for their corruption convictions but were sentenced Tuesday to house arrest for what a judge called crimes of "arrogance."

FACING OUSTER-- In this May 18, 2012 photo Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Joan Orie Melvin, speaks to reporters outside Pittsburgh Municipal Court in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File) by Bill Keisling (RealReporting.org)--A public impeachment trial in the state senate is not only desirable in the case of Justice Melvin, but necessary.