Inquirer: DA Larry Krasner's impeachment trial gets indefinitely postponed by the Pa. Senate

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2. I heard today that she published her full opinion

Full opinion here (PDF) - https://www.pacourts.us/assets/opinions/Commonwealth/out/563MD22_1-12-23.pdf?cb=1

Pa. Commonwealth Court releases opinion calling impeachment articles against DA Larry Krasner legally insufficient

by Chris Palmer
Updated Jan 12, 2023

Pennsylvania’s Commonwealth Court said Thursday that the state House’s decision to impeach Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner appeared largely based on disagreements about how he was running his office and said that was “not enough to create a constitutionally sound basis for impeaching and removing” the city’s top prosecutor.

In a majority opinion released Thursday afternoon, Commonwealth Court Judge Ellen Ceisler added that other allegations of wrongdoing approved by the Republican-controlled House also did not meet the required legal standard of “misbehavior in office” — either because the accusations lacked specificity or were grounds for the courts, not the legislature, to assess.

“None of the Amended Articles viably allege that [Krasner] has acted in a manner that constitutes any ‘misbehavior in office,’” Ceisler wrote.

The release of the opinion came a day after the state Senate voted to indefinitely postpone Krasner’s impeachment trial, which had been scheduled to begin Jan. 18. The opinion added some detail to an order the court had issued last month declaring the articles of impeachment against Krasner legally insufficient. That order caused the Senate to put its trial of Krasner on hold.

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