Pennsylvania lawmakers voted on Wednesday to impeach Philadelphia district attorney Larry Krasner (D.), capping a months-long campaign to remove the George Soros-backed prosecutor on the heels of a historic murder wave.
A Republican majority passed seven articles of impeachment against Krasner almost entirely along party lines. The articles state that Krasner failed to prosecute violent offenders, withheld facts in cases, and violated victims’ rights. It now falls on the Republican-controlled state Senate to bring him to trial. Members of the upper chamber can vote to remove Krasner with a two-thirds vote.
A spokeswoman for the state Senate majority leader told the Washington Free Beacon that the upper chamber shares “the concerns expressed by leaders in the House of Representatives about how the crime crisis is affecting Philadelphia and the Commonwealth as a whole” and noted that “the Senate’s role in this process is to hear the evidence presented by the House of Representatives.”
[Fingers crossed. Krasner needs to go. — Ed]
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