The vote sets the stage for what would be the first Pennsylvania Senate impeachment trial in nearly three decades.
HARRISBURG — Philadelphia’s elected Democratic prosecutor faces a state Senate trial and possible removal from office after the Republican-led state House voted Wednesday to impeach him over progressive policies he has enacted amid rising crime in the city.
Krasner said in a statement that the vote was the only time the state House has ever “used the drastic remedy of impeachment of an elected official because they do not like their ideas.” “No public official is above accountability, and if not for us in this chamber, he would have no oversight,” White said.
Democrats argued that Krasner was being scapegoated for wider problems with crime, that the case against him is weak and that his removal would be an abuse of legislative power. They said the lame duck session impeachment would overturn voters’ will and that House Republicans have themselves failed to act to address gun violence.
State Rep. Mike Zabel, a Democrat from Philadelphia who served as a city assistant district attorney under Krasner’s predecessor in office, said Krasner was being blamed unfairly for things that were not entirely his fault. If the Senate returns before year’s end, it will have to figure out the next steps, likely first setting the rules and then formally accepting the articles of impeachment from the House. The process is not expected to wrap up quickly.
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