The impeachment is part of a wave of efforts across the country to remove progressive prosecutors over crimefighting policies amid a rise in violent crime nationally.
said the chamber’s members are constitutionally bound to consider the impeachment articles.
The Senate will create a committee of senators to hear evidence and produce a report to the full chamber. However, Krasner said House Republicans don’t have a shred of evidence that his policies are connected to an “uptick” in crime, and numerous researchers say they’ve found no connection between progressive crimefighting policies and an increase in homicide rates.
The last time the Pennsylvania Senate tried an impeachment case was nearly three decades ago when, after a monthslong process, it convicted former state Supreme Court Justice Rolf Larsen, who already had been convicted of conspiracy counts in a criminal court and removed from office.
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