Philadelphia's elected prosecutor asked a state court Friday to halt a Republican-led effort to remove him from office, arguing that the process ended when the Legislature's two-year session ran out earlier in the week.
District Attorney Larry Krasner, a Democrat, wants Commonwealth Court to declare that the General Assembly lacks constitutional authority to remove local officials like him — as opposed to state officials — and that the claims against him do not amount to the "misbehavior in office" required for impeachment.
"Never before has the legislature exercised its power to impeach and remove someone duly elected twice for things that do not come close to a crime," Krasner's lawyers told the court. "And never before has the statewide legislature exercised its power to impeach a locally elected officer like District Attorney Krasner."
All but one of the House Republicans voted in favor of impeachment, a move driven by opposition to the progressive policies Krasner has pursued during a time of rising violent crime in the city. All Democrats voted against it. Krasner has called the move a "drastic remedy" that lacks "a single shred of evidence connecting our policies to any uptick in crime."
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