A week after switching parties, Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter is still trying to fit in as a Democrat. He has moved his desk in the Senate chamber across the aisle. He has gone from ranking ...

Arlen Specter likes it when he’s described as the best lawyer in the Senate; there are a lot of lawyers in its chambers. Specter, 79, particularly enjoys his reputation as someone who will go wherever ...

Tuesday’s primary election results will only serve to reinforce the anti-incumbency narrative that has overlaid much of the media coverage of this election season thus far. According to the polls and ...

RACHEL MARTIN, BYLINE: This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Rachel Martin. Longtime Republican Senator Arlen Specter has died. The GOP firebrand made headlines in 2009 when he switched parties.

Even after nearly two decades in the Senate, Specter hadn’t lost any of his ability to confound — or court controversy. In 1998, he voted “not proven” rather than “not guilty” in the impeachment trial ...

Conservatives who have bridled at Arlen Specter's 25-year Senate career figured they finally had the Pennsylvania Republican hemmed in this summer, as he prepared to chair the first Supreme Court ...

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter (R-PA) will head that panel's hearings on the nomination of John Roberts to the Supreme Court. A moderate Republican, Specter often finds himself at ...

Senate Democratic primary is a test of the anti-Washington sentiment. May 18, 2010— -- Voters across Pennsylvania today started casting their votes in the Senate primary race that could become a ...

In wake of Specter's defection, Republican Party considers the size of its tent May 1, 2009— -- The defection of Arlen Specter from the GOP to the Democratic Party this week has revived a ...

Former Republican Senator Arlen Specter passed away on Sunday morning at the age of 82. His son said he lost his battle with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Living up to his reputation as a hard guy to keep ...

Plenty of people succeed in politics by being everyone’s friend. It takes a special talent to make it as a guy whom allies call “abrasive,” “brutal” and “prosecutorial.” Republican Arlen Specter of ...

When Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter announced on April 28 that he was switching to the Democratic Party after nearly four decades as an elected Republican, it marked a messy and shocking end to ...