Pennsylvania House Republicans Initiate Process To Impeach Commie Joo DA Larry Krasner: ‘Widespread Lawlessness In The City Of Philadelphia’

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Pennsylvania House Republicans Initiate Process To Impeach DA Larry Krasner: ‘Widespread Lawlessness In The City Of Philadelphia’​



By Matt PetrilloJune 13, 2022 at 4:40 pm



HARRISBURG, Pa. (CBS) – Pennsylvania House Republicans have initiated the process to impeach Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner due to what they call “unchecked crime.” Three House Republican members from Western Pennsylvania — Reps. Josh Kail, Torren Ecker, and Tim O’Neal — say they have been drafting articles of impeachment involving Philadelphia’s DA since the South Street mass shooting.
Last week, three people were killed and 11 were injured in a shooting on Philadelphia’s popular South Street. This was the “final straw” in their decision to seek impeachment.
Many people agree Philly has a crime problem.
The group of Republican lawmakers calling for the impeachment of Philly’s DA are not from Philadelphia, not even its suburbs, but they insist they know what’s right for Philadelphia.
“We are here to announce articles of impeachment against Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner,” Kail said.
Mispronouncing DA Larry Krasner’s name and speaking from Harrisburg, a group of lawmakers from Western Pennsylvania announced they are circulating a co-sponsorship memo for supporters of articles of impeachment and believe it will receive bipartisan support.
“We fully anticipate this to be a bipartisan effort. We fully anticipate to gather quite a bit of support amongst this effort because quite honestly the dereliction of duty and the failure of Larry Krasner is well known across the commonwealth,” Kail said.
While explaining what motivated them to start this process, one of the lawmakers incorrectly referred to the South Street shooting as the “south side shooting.”
“This came to head two weekends ago during the south side shooting,” State Rep. Torren Ecker said.
While the group did not show a specific incident resulting from Krasner’s policies, they insist Philly’s DA is not enforcing laws, which they claim leads to a spike in crime.
“Across the country, people are standing up to unchecked and uncontrolled violence and lawlessness allowed because of radical politicians in district attorneys’ offices, like Larry Krasner,” he said. “Just last week, city businesses said they are thinking of relocating because of spikes in crime. Philadelphia is Pennsylvania’s major economic engine, a tourist attraction, and the birthplace of our freedoms. If unchecked crime is keeping businesses and tourists from visiting and locating in Philadelphia, it impacts Pennsylvania as a whole.”
Ecker says “it’s widespread lawlessness in the City of Philadelphia.”
“Lives have been lost, property has been destroyed, and families have been crushed,” Kail said. “Enough is enough.”



They say the decision to begin the proceedings to impeach Krasner did not come overnight.

“We did not arrive at this decision lightly or easily. In fact, we are taking this action after we have taken significant steps to pass legislation that addresses violent crime in Philadelphia by ensuring our current laws are enforced,” Kail said. “We are starting this process now because the unchecked violent crime in Philadelphia has reached a breaking point due to the willful refusal by District Attorney Krasner to enforce existing laws.”
CBS3 spoke to Krasner on Monday.
“How do you respond to the criticism? Well, here’s a couple facts. We are all obviously very concerned about public safety and we should be, but the question is do you want to fix it or do you want to go back in time to everything that got us here?” Krasner said.
Krasner is not the first progressive district attorney to face the possibility of being forced out of office. San Franciso voters ousted their liberal DA, Chesa Boudin, last week in a recall election.
“Guess what? Larry Krasner is the original Chesa Boudin,” O’Neal said.
Store owners CBS3 spoke with along South Street point out voters elected Krasner into office twice, both times with large majorities.
“It shouldn’t fall on him,” PLR Lashes owner Aisha Johnson said. “I like him. I think he’s excellent.”
Others add the group of lawmakers are playing the blame game over the South Street shooting.
“You can’t put that on one man, that it’s your fault the shooting happened. Let’s be honest. It’s certain individuals,” Wardrobe store owner Chris Sconey said.
Now, the three lawmakers are gathering evidence.
The next legislative step in this process will involve getting additional support from members of the House and to that extent, public support will also play a role.
Once the Articles of Impeachment are introduced, they will be referred to a committee to be approved. Once approved, the Articles of Impeachment can be considered by the full House of Representatives where it will need a simple majority vote before moving to trial in the Senate to determine whether the impeached official should be removed from office. This requires a 2/3’s majority vote.
 



Pennsylvania House Sets Up Committee To Consider Philadelphia Commie Joo DA Larry Krasner’s Impeachment​



June 29, 2022 at 6:46 pm



PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Pennsylvania lawmakers began a process Wednesday to study Philadelphia’s growing gun violence plague, establishing a panel that could eventually recommend impeachment of the city’s elected Democratic district attorney.
The divided House of Representatives voted 114-86 to establish the five-member Select Committee on Restoring Law and Order, which among other things could judge District Attorney Larry Krasner’s job performance and make “recommendations for removal from office or other appropriate discipline, including impeachment.”

The proposal was sponsored by Republican state Rep. Josh Kail of Beaver County, who two weeks ago announced plans to seek the impeachment of Krasner, a staunch progressive who was easily reelected last year despite the city’s spiking homicide rate. Four Democrats and one Republican crossed party lines.

“The bottom line is this, all the laws in the world don’t mean a thing if we don’t have district attorneys that are willing to enforce them,” Kail said during floor debate.

Krasner spokesperson Jane Roh said the resolution showed “House Republicans’ support for the NRA’s agenda and complicity in gun violence due to their enabling of unrestricted flooding of firearms into every county in Pennsylvania.”

Democratic opponents of setting up the committee noted that Republicans have not taken similar action against GOP district attorneys with recent criminal charges or convictions, that their efforts to address gun violence have been utterly blocked in the Republican-majority General Assembly, and that targeting Krasner would not be an appropriate use of impeachment power.

“To think that in this moment, when we do actually have a gun violence crisis across the commonwealth, that we would come here and play these types of political games is really frustrating, and it’s an affront to folks in communities across Philadelphia who are desperate for solutions,” said Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta, D-Philadelphia.

Rep. Martina White, the only Republican House member from Philadelphia, said shootings and killings have increased steeply during Krasner’s tenure in office. She said Krasner’s job performance is “not just about charges that are brought, it’s about the cases that are being withdrawn, cases that are tossed aside, victims that haven’t seen justice for a family member.”

Speaker Bryan Cutler, R-Lancaster, will pick the committee’s three Republican and two Democratic members.

San Francisco recalled its liberal district attorney this month, and national groups have been seeking to influence district attorney contests across the country. The parties are jostling for control of prosecutors’ offices that can either block or adopt criminal justice reforms.


If the committee recommends impeachment against Krasner, the full House would then take it up. Impeachment, a very rare event in the Legislature — requiring a vote by the House and then trial in the Senate — was most recently deployed successfully against Supreme Court Justice Rolf Larsen nearly three decades ago.

The House voted to impeach, and the Senate convicted Larsen, a Pittsburgh Democrat, of one impeachment article in 1994, for having an improper discussion with a lawyer about court matters. He was permanently removed from the court and barred from holding public office in the state.

A different mechanism, direct removal in the Senate, failed when attempted against Democratic Attorney General Kathleen Kane six years ago, although she subsequently was convicted of perjury and other offenses and resigned.

But the threat of impeachment is not unusual, as occurred two weeks ago when state Rep. Daryl Metcalfe, R-Butler, sought cosponsors for an impeachment resolution against Environmental Protection Secretary Patrick McDonnell, who had already announced his departure from Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf’s Cabinet.

Metcalfe also introduced impeachment resolutions targeting Wolf over his COVID-19 policies for the past two sessions, but neither gained traction. Recent Republican efforts to impeach Democratic Justice David Wecht, mostly over congressional and state redistricting, also have gone nowhere.

Lawmakers have also proposed impeachment in recent years against a Pittsburgh mayor, a Lancaster County sheriff, a Schuylkill County commissioner, other Democrats on the Supreme Court, a Montgomery County commissioner and a Lancaster district judge.

Wolf’s spokesperson, Beth Rementer, called the Wolf impeachment resolutions attention-seeking political distractions. She said they have not taken much of his time.

“They have had no impact on the governor,” Rementer said. “To be frank, these resolutions are nothing more than political theater.”

A year ago, House Republicans also threatened impeachment against two Democratic elections officials in Philadelphia for counting mail-in ballots that had not been dated by hand. They backed down, but more recently the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the dates are not mandatory.
 



‘This Is Hatred, This Is Foul’: Philadelphia Commie Joo DA Larry Krasner, Teachers’ Union Denounce Legislation Targeting LGBTQ Youth​



By CBS3 StaffJune 30, 2022 at 3:50 pm



PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner and the teachers’ union condemned bills in Harrisburg that would affect the LGTBQ+ community. Two passed the Pennsylvania Senate on Wednesday.
One would restrict what Republicans call “sexually explicit content.” Another restricts instruction about sexual orientation and gender identity in schools.
Krasner called the bills “despicable.”
“We hope and expect that they will be vetoed because this is hatred, this is foul,” Krasner said. “People are already hurt. They are already hurt because they have been singled out, they have been pointed out. They have been told they are not good enough and none of that is true.”
The district attorney said the Pennsylvania legislature should concentrate on the gun violence epidemic.
 

Commie joo DA Larry Krasner files motion to stop subpoena issued by Pennsylvania House committee​


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By CBS3 Staff

October 6, 2022 / 7:38 PM / CBS Philadelphia





PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner is fighting the latest effort from state lawmakers who are trying to impeach him. Krasner filed a motion Thursday to stop a subpoena issued by a Pennsylvania House committee.

Members of the committee asked Krasner for information about an upcoming murder trial for a former police officer accused of shooting a Black man.

The committee held hearings in Philadelphia last week, pointing to recent violent crime as a reason to impeach the district attorney.

Krasner was overwhelmingly re-elected by Philadelphia for a second term last November.
 
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Pa. House GOP file articles of impeachment against commie joo Krasner​


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By CBS3 Staff

October 26, 2022 / 1:44 PM / CBS Philadelphia





PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Pennsylvania House Republicans filed articles of impeachment against Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner on Wednesday. Legislators gathered at the State Capital in Harrisburg to make the announcement.

The filing comes on the heels of a house committee report, criticizing Kranser's administration and his record as district attorney.
 

Krasner impeachment vote to happen Tuesday​


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By CBS3 Staff

November 15, 2022 / 6:29 AM / CBS Philadelphia





PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - Happening Tuesday, a Pennsylvania State House committee is expected to vote on articles of impeachment filed against Philadelphia commie joo District Attorney Larry Krasner. The vote on Tuesday morning could bring the city's top prosecutor a step closer to being impeached.

The articles accuse Krasner of implementing policies that have contributed to the rise of gun violence in the city.

Krasner has defended his office's record and slammed the impeachment effort as a political stunt.
 

Pa. House Committee votes in favor of Krasner impeachment​


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By Seth Kaplan

November 15, 2022 / 9:32 PM / CBS Philadelphia





PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- As Philadelphia works to put more cops on the street to fight crime, there was a step forward Tuesday in the effort to impeach commie joo District Attorney Larry Krasner. A Pennsylvania House Judiciary Committee voted in favor of articles of impeachment against Krasner. The vote will now be sent to the floor of the state House.

The GOP-controlled state House of Representatives is moving closer to impeaching Krasner.

Republican state Rep. Martina White from Northeast Philadelphia says the process is about justice.

"I just want to make sure that the citizens of Philadelphia have an opportunity to live their life the way that we all deserve to be able to live," White said.

Republicans blame Krasner for the surge in crime because they consider the district attorney's policies too soft.


Democrats, including state Rep. Jason Dawkins, whose own brother was murdered in Philadelphia, say Krasner is not to blame.

"At no time did we look toward our district attorney as the culprit or as the individual that we were holding responsible," Dawkins said.

Krasner's office released a statement saying, in part:

"Pennsylvania House Republicans are using their final days as lame duck legislators with majority control to engage in a Hail Mary attempt to remove District Attorney Larry Krasner from office. Instead of learning from their historic losses on November 8th, these legislators -- like their failed gubernatorial nominee and colleague Doug Mastriano -- are more committed to gutting democracy than working for the people of the Commonwealth."
The committee voted to send these impeachment articles to the full Pennsylvania House, which could vote as early as Wednesday.


For now, at least, Republicans have the majority they would need in the House to impeach Krasner on a straight party-line vote.

They have a big majority in the Senate too but not big enough for the two-thirds vote they would need in that chamber to convict him without some Democrats crossing over and voting with them.

The ACLU of Pennsylvania's legislative director Elizabeth Randol released a statement following the vote.

"As we've been saying since the start of this sham impeachment effort targeting DA Krasner, this is both a clear political attack on a duly election official and an effort to disenfranchise the voters of Philadelphia who reelected Mr. Krasner just last year. The election last week was a clear rejection of the type of fear-mongering and tough-on-crime rhetoric that those leading the impeachment effort continue to sell. The people aren't buying it.
"Democracy won last Tuesday, but it seems like Republicans in the state House must have missed the news. This impeachment effort is anti-democratic on its own, but when you consider that those leading this effort rushed to hold a vote even as the balance of power remains undecided in the state House is remarkably cynical. When voters spoke last Tuesday, they clearly chose democracy. This is anything but and the politicians pushing for impeachment should take heed."
 





Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner impeached by Pa. House​


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Updated on: November 16, 2022 / 2:18 PM / CBS/AP








HARRISBURG, Pa. (CBS/AP) — 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.

Lawmakers voted 107-85 to impeach District Attorney Larry Krasner, setting the stage for what would be the first Pennsylvania Senate impeachment trial in nearly three decades. Republicans currently have a 29-21 majority in the state Senate, going to 28-22 early next year, and a two-thirds vote of the senators present would be required to remove Krasner.

Krasner, who was overwhelmingly reelected by Philadelphia voters last year, is not accused of breaking the law. Instead, Republicans argued that he should be removed from office for various reasons, including his failure to prosecute some minor crimes and his bail request policies, his staff oversight and reports that his office didn't adequately notify crime victims about certain matters. They also alleged that Krasner obstructed the House's investigation of his office.

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."

"In the hundreds of years the Commonwealth has existed, this is the only time the House has used the drastic remedy of impeachment of an elected official because they do not like their ideas.
Those ideas are precisely why Philadelphia voters elected and re-elected me to serve as the Philly DA – in two landslides. These ideas include doing more and doing better for victims and survivors, solving crime through modern scientific enforcement, and investing deeply in the prevention of violence. And they are why elected officials who do not live or vote in Philadelphia are trying so hard to erase the votes of Philadelphians: because they preferred the status quo. They have impeached me without presenting a single 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. That Pennsylvania Republicans willfully avoided hearing the facts about my office is shameful.
Each Philadelphia voter is not just 3/5ths of a voter. Philadelphia is not Pennsylvania's colony. Philadelphians get taxation AND representation. Philadelphians' votes, and Philadelphia voters, should not be erased.
History will harshly judge this anti-democratic authoritarian effort to erase Philly's votes – votes by Black, brown, and broke people in Philadelphia. And voters will have the last word."
Democrats said lawmakers have only removed two officials — both of them judges — through impeachment: the first in 1811 and state Supreme Court Justice Rolf Larsen in 1994.


State Rep. Martina White, R-Philadelphia, a prime sponsor of the impeachment resolution and a political ally of the city police union that has clashed with Krasner, said: "This man has denied that there is even a crisis of crime happening on our streets."

"No public official is above accountability, and if not for us in this chamber, he would have no oversight," White said.

Former prosecutor Rep. Tim Bonner, R-Mercer, said "anarchy and violence will prevail" if elected leaders can choose what laws to obey or enforce.

"No one individual has the right to set aside the laws of Congress or the General Assembly because they simply do not like the law. No one has that degree of absolute power," Bonner 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.

"You are doing the wrong thing," said state Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta, D-Philadelphia. "I will be generous and say that maybe you're making a mistake. But if you look at what is before us, and when we think about the sacred obligation we have as members of this august body, this is not what we ought to be doing."

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.

"The truth is that prosecuting crimes in one of the largest cities in the country is a complex task with a never-ending parade of challenges," Zabel said, urging fellow lawmakers to "take a break from the political brinksmanship."

It's unclear when the state Senate will launch a trial. The two-year legislative session ends in two weeks, but the chamber's top ranking Republican, state Sen. Kim Ward of Westmoreland County, said this week that she intends to add days to the session to take up the matter.

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.

In a lengthy Oct. 24 report, the Republican-led House Select Committee on Restoring Law and Order, which was empaneled to look into Krasner's tenure as district attorney, said that over the previous 21 1/2 months, there had been 992 homicides in the city, contrasting it with 551 over the two-year period 2015-16. The report also found that 18-20% of gun crimes had been dropped by Krasner's office, compared to 8-10% statewide.


But Krasner's office responded that 20 of the 54 U.S. cities with at least 10 murders in 2019 saw greater increases in homicides than did Philadelphia over 2019-21. And Krasner has noted that the homicide rates during those years were higher in five of the state's 13 largest counties — Allegheny, Berks, Chester, Lehigh and Luzerne — than they were in Philadelphia.

The resolution directed House Speaker Bryan Cutler, R-Lancaster, to name two Republicans and a Democrat to manage the case in the Senate.


 

Larry Krasner impeachment process continues in Pa. Senate​


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By CBS3 Staff

November 29, 2022 / 8:39 AM / CBS Philadelphia





PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Pennsylvania lawmakers will move forward with the impeachment process for commie joo Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner on Tuesday.

Krasner, a Democrat, was formally impeached by the Republican-controlled Pennsylvania House earlier this month, and now the state Senate is required to step in.

On Tuesday, the Senate will vote on two resolutions that are necessary to move the impeachment process along.

Removing Krasner from office requires a two-thirds majority vote in the state Senate.

So far, no trial date has been set.


GOP politicians want Krasner removed from office, arguing his bail policies and declining or failing to prosecute some minor crimes have contributed to crime in Philadelphia.

The impeachment vote followed reports from the House Select Committee on Restoring Law and Order, which blamed a rise in crime on Krasner's progressive policies.

Krasner's office has called the impeachment process a "nakedly politicized" attempt to erase the will of the voters who have elected him to his office twice. A statement released earlier this month detailed the office's processes for trying homicide and shooting cases, the scrutiny on other progressive DAs and reforms that Krasner says would help reduce crime.
 





Krasner files motion to reconsider sentence of former Philly cop​


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By Joe Holden

November 29, 2022 / 5:49 PM / CBS Philadelphia





PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- The city's District Attorney's Office says a former Philadelphia police officer, convicted of voluntary manslaughter, received a sentence that is too light. Prosecutors are now appealing, saying Eric Ruch should serve more time.

Commie joo District Attorney Larry Krasner's office has filed a motion for reconsideration before the trial judge arguing the sentence of Ruch is too short.

The sentence, handed down by Common Pleas Court Judge Barbara McDermott earlier this month, is 30 months below that state minimum guideline, according to the DA's Office. Ruch received 11 1/2 to 23 months.

Ruch was convicted in September by a jury on a charge of voluntary manslaughter in the 2017 fatal shooting of Eric Plowden Jr., an unarmed Black man.

It was the first time in decades an on-duty Philadelphia police officer was charged and convicted in connection with killing someone.


The shooting happened after investigators say Plowden was involved in a car crash in East Germantown, following a brief police chase.

It's alleged Plowden had been running from officers who believed the vehicle he was driving had some possible connection to another unsolved homicide.

Plowden was not armed when he was shot, the bullet traveling through his left hand and into his head.

At the time of sentencing, justice reform advocates and members of Plowden's family condemned the length of the sentence.


On Tuesday, Krasner said the sentence by the judge was a "gross downward departure."

"The record we respectfully submit does not support this departure," Krasner said. "Such a departure severely lessens the gravity of this offense for which the defendant was convicted and suggests that a different standard applies to this defendant than other defendants."

A spokesperson for the judicial courts in Philadelphia said they couldn't comment on the case because the matter is still ongoing, given Krasner's filing on the motion.

Legal experts said while sentencing guidelines do exist, judges have wide latitude in the decisions they make.

Krasner said they do have options for further appeals, the next stop would be the Superior Court.
 




DA Larry Krasner sues to stop lawmakers from removing him​


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December 2, 2022 / 6:33 PM / AP







HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — 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.
Philadelphia, not the state House or Senate, has oversight over potential impeachment and removal of its district attorney, the lawsuit claims.
Krasner sued the Senate's top-ranking Republican, Sen. Kim Ward of Westmoreland County, unnamed members of the Senate committee that will oversee the case and the three impeachment managers designated by the House of Representatives.
"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."

Ward's spokesperson, Erica Clayton Wright, said Friday that the filing was under review and a response will be made "once we have had time to evaluate the case." Clayton Wright has previously said congressional impeachment proceedings have spanned more than one legislative session.
The state House voted on nearly party lines to impeach Krasner on Nov. 16, sending the matter to the state Senate for trial next month. Removal will require support from two-thirds of senators, a tall order in the politically divided chamber.
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 was overwhelmingly reelected by Philadelphia voters last year and is not accused of breaking the law.

The argument for his removal includes his failure to prosecute some minor crimes and his bail request policies, criticism of his management of the DA's office and reports his office did not properly notify crime victims about developments in some cases. House Republicans also assert that Krasner obstructed the House investigation.
Krasner has called the move a "drastic remedy" that lacks "a single shred of evidence connecting our policies to any uptick in crime."
Democrats said lawmakers have only removed two officials — both of them judges — through impeachment: the first a county judge in 1811 and then state Supreme Court Justice Rolf Larsen in 1994.
Larsen was impeached after the state Supreme Court had removed him from the bench following a felony conviction, Krasner's lawyers wrote.
"Here, the District Attorney of Philadelphia has been impeached by a lame-duck House based primarily on policy disagreements, which could not be more different than the criminal conduct at issue" in Larsen's case, they wrote.
Last month, Republican House Speaker Bryan Cutler of Lancaster County named Republican Reps. Tim Bonner of Mercer County and Craig Williams of Delaware County, and Democratic Rep. Jared Solomon of Philadelphia, to manage the Senate trial. Solomon voted against impeachment.
Williams said the filings were expected. "If I were him, I'd be quite concerned, too," he said.

Solomon said Friday that he has not read the filings and that he is involved to ensure fairness.
"This is an attempt by Trump-style Republicans to once again blow out the votes of residents in Philadelphia," Solomon said from New York, where he was attending the annual Pennsylvania Society political event. "If it can happen in Philadelphia, it can happen in any one of our 67 counties. We need to protect democracy and that's what I'm in the room to do."
Bonner said he had not reviewed the filing and so declined to comment.
The Senate has given Krasner until Dec. 21 to file an answer, and the trial is set to start Jan. 18. The GOP won a 28-22 Senate majority last month, although one Republican has since resigned.

 
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