Despite Democrats’ attempts to tell a different story following the midterm elections, Americans are still concerned about the epidemic of rising crime.
On Wednesday, Pennsylvania’s Republican-led House voted to impeach soft-on-crime Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner. (RELATED: George Soros Will Continue Bankrolling Leftist DAs Despite Decline in Public Safety)
The Judiciary Committee in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives voted Tuesday to advance impeachment articles against Krasner, teeing up Wednesday’s vote.
The 107-85 vote was largely along party lines and advanced their effort to remove Krasner from office in response to the city’s gun violence problem. Last month, the city passed a particularly grim milestone: over 1,000 homicides in a year. (RELATED: Multiple Dems, Including US Congresswoman, Carjacked. Will Party Finally Disavow Defund Police Wing?)
In the articles of impeachment, lawmakers accuse Krasner of “misbehavior in office” and obstructing a legislative committee investigating his office.
According to Fox News, Republican lawmakers have accused Krasner of exacerbating Philadelphia’s crime problem by implementing certain criminal justice “reform” policies and intentionally botching certain cases.
“His lack of proper leadership serves as a direct and proximate cause of the crisis currently facing the city of Philadelphia,” states House Resolution No. 240, which called for Krasner’s impeachment.
Republican state Rep. Timothy Bonner accused Krasner of putting himself above the law and selectively enforcing the law where it serves his agenda.
“One man that has put himself above the law and has arbitrarily decided what laws are valid,” he said. “In Philadelphia, a prosecutor is at the center of the rule of law and protecting the law and enforcing the law in this country. A prosecutor has discretion in deciding what charges will be initially filed, but that power is not absolute, and it can be abused.”
Krasner has derided the impeachment effort as a “political stunt.”
In a statement released shortly after the vote, he said House Republicans didn’t present a “shred of evidence connecting our policies to any uptick in crime.”
“We were never given the opportunity to defend our ideas and policies — policies I would have been proud to explain,” he said. “That Pennsylvania Republicans willfully avoided hearing the facts about my office is shameful.”
The matter will now progress to the State Senate, which is required to conduct its own investigation before a vote. Impeachment requires a two-thirds majority to pass. Republicans currently have a 29-21 majority in the State Senate, which will change to 28-22 early next year.
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George Soros needs removed from interfering in American politics, period.
Yeah, with a 9mm
It’s not just Soros, Facebook and its owner gives so much money to try to arrange the outcome of our elections! This buying elections need to stop. Millions pore in to elect a person, where there is no limit to pacs! That should be ruled that a person or company could only give what an individual can!
They won’t get the 2/3s. Dems need high crime to finish America off. High crime being the crisis they need to usher in Marshall Law and Federal police. Remember Obama’s dream of a federal civilian police corp as well funded as the military? The shirts no doubt will be brown. Soros bought DA’s is what it’ll take to push them over the finish line.
Martial law (military).
Its against the law to take payoffs to not do your job! So Soros gave money payoff for this unamerican AG to not go by the law. So why isn’t Soros arrested ?
DA NOT AG.
If you don’t know why, give it some serious thought, I think you will find the answer.$&$
Soros isn’t in the US
This is getting ridiculous. In PA the State House impeaches a soft on crime DA, but the people of PA elect a Senator that openly stated that he wants to release 50% of the prision population in PA, he soft on crime, he’s had a stroke and he has a heart condition. In addition, he didn’t show up for work 1/3 of the time in his last job. I don’t get it? Can someone from that part of the Country explain this to me??
The PA voters are complete idiots to elect a medical nightmare like Tetterman!
Hooray awesome move