The separation of powers, and where legislative authority stops and the court's begins, were central to arguments in court.
A Pennsylvania court is weighing whether to step in and stop the Legislature's impeachment proceedings against Philadelphia's district attorney, in a case that is part of a wave of efforts across the country to remove progressive prosecutors as violent crime rose nationally.
Krasner, who was overwhelmingly reelected by Philadelphia voters last year, has not been charged with a crime or been sanctioned by a court. He has dismissed the House's Nov. 16 vote to impeach him as taking aim at his ideas, a notion Democratic Judge Ellen Ceisler echoed during Thursday's entirely virtual proceedings.
Progressive prosecutors, whose platforms tend to support alternatives to incarceration, an end to a racist war on drugs and methods to hold police officers accountable, faced scrutiny as the COVID-19 pandemic created massive social disruption. Violent crime rose in the first year of the pandemic, and though it was fairly steady through 2021, it has yet to fall to levels seen before the coronavirus spread globally. Statistics are not yet available for 2022.
The House asserts in its seven impeachment articles that Krasner should be removed from office for various reasons, including his failure to prosecute some minor crimes and his bail request policies and criticism of his management of the district attorney's office. Judge Michael Wojcik, a Democrat, noted that some of the impeachment articles involve the professional conduct of lawyers - a matter regulated by courts - and he questioned whether those articles overstep legislative authority.
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