Over the course of my career, I have had the privilege of training and working with attorneys to serve as legal observers at marches and protests. Recently, as part of the pro bono practice, Ballard Spahr volunteers in New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C., were trained for the massive Women’s March on January 21, 2017,  protecting their right to peaceably assem...

SWARTHMORE -- Mary Gay Scanlon on Saturday kicked off a bid for the newly drawn 5th Congressional District in the same place where her earlier entrée into public service occurred.

Speaking to a crowd of supporters in the library of the Swarthmore Rutledge School, with audience members seated on chairs built for elementary students, Scanlon said she was motivated to...

Good afternoon. I’m Mary Gay Scanlon and I’m running for the brand new fifth congressional district of Pennsylvania.

Thank you all for being here.

I particularly want to recognize our speakers/ our new Comptroller Joanne Phillips, registrar of Wills Mary Walk, and Sheriff Jerry Sanders. Sheriff Sanders is a new friend, but those of you who heard his daughter’s introducti...