{"id":1518072,"date":"2022-06-16T07:19:51","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T11:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1518072"},"modified":"2022-06-16T07:19:57","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T11:19:57","slug":"pennsylvania-lawmakers-look-to-impeach-woke-philly-da","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pennsylvania-lawmakers-look-to-impeach-woke-philly-da\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania Lawmakers Look to Impeach Woke Philly DA"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpennsylvania-lawmakers-look-to-impeach-woke-philly-da%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1518072&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<aside id=\"aside1\" class=\"left\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Three Republican lawmakers in Pennsylvania are looking to take down Philadelphia&#8217;s progressive Democrat district attorney \u2014 Larry Krasner \u2014 in the wake of San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin&#8217;s ouster by recall voters last week. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>State Reps. Timothy O\u2019Neal, Josh Kail, and Torren Ecker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/news\/philadelphia-da-larry-krasner-impeachment-house-republicans-20220613.html?cid=Philly.com+Twitter&#038;utm_campaign=Philly.com+Twitter+Account&#038;utm_medium=social&#038;utm_source=t.co\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> their push to remove DA Krasner via impeachment this week for what they call a dereliction of duty to uphold the laws of Philadelphia and prosecute those who break them in a year where more than 220 homicides have already been counted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is about the fact that he is willfully failing to do his job,&#8221; O&#8217;Neal said this week at a press conference announcing the Republicans&#8217; intent to impeach Krasner.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The under-fire DA, though, is sticking to his soft-on-crime agenda and, publicly at least, continuing the charade that his woke policies are a good thing. &#8220;There is nothing new about there being resistance when you\u2019re trying to bring meaningful change and you\u2019re trying to change society,\u201d Krasner said this week sounding like Chesa Boudin. \u201cWhat they are doing in terms of impeachment is clearly without a legal basis, it is clearly unconstitutional, and that will all come out as this proceeds \u2014 if it proceeds at all,\u201d he claimed trying to brush aside the scrutiny.<\/p>\n<p>But in reality, the City of Brotherly Love is not so loving these days \u2014 violent crime has skyrocketed since Krasner took office in 2018. In 2021, Philly was <a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/spencerbrown\/2021\/12\/09\/the-12-cities-smashing-homicide-records-have-this-in-common-n2600373\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">one of 12 cities<\/a> to smash their annual homicide record set in 1990 with more than 520 slayings. In December of last year, Krasner was asked about the spiking crime in the city whose laws he&#8217;s supposed to enforce and whose citizens he&#8217;s supposed to protect. His response, as <a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/spencerbrown\/2021\/12\/07\/phillys-democrat-district-attorney-claims-no-crisis-of-crime-as-homicides-hit-alltime-high-n2600257\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Townhall reported<\/a>, was literally unbelievable:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;We don\u2019t have a crisis of lawlessness, we don\u2019t have a crisis of crime, we don\u2019t have a crisis of violence,&#8221; the district attorney said at his weekly news briefing in South Philadelphia according to The Philadelphia Inquirer. &#8220;It\u2019s important that we don\u2019t let this become mushy and bleed into the notion that there is some kind of big spike in crime,&#8221; Krasner added.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That kind of brazen ignorance and attempt to brush aside a record-setting number of homicides as not a crime or violence crisis \u2014 while still refusing to take a tough-on-crime position \u2014 that made him a target for those who want to see law and order restored in Philadelphia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Instead of cracking down on crime and putting criminals behind bars, Krasner has, for years, pursued &#8220;shorter sentences, diverting low-level offenses from the justice system, and charging crimes at a lower level.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In addition to shorter sentences, policies Krasner has enacted include cutting back post-sentence supervision of those who are convicted. A policy he rolled out in 2019 meant that &#8220;someone facing a misdemeanor drug charge, who in the past might have faced a sentence of three to 23 months in jail, plus a year on probation, would instead face just three to six months in jail, plus at most nine months\u2019 probation.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to more serious crimes, the policy aimed at ending &#8220;mass supervision&#8221; meant that someone &#8220;convicted of a felony who in the past may have received two to four years in prison plus two years probation would now receive that prison time plus six months or at most one year of probation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Even more recently, in early June, <a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/juliorosas\/2022\/06\/06\/philadelphia-da-gets-reminded-who-really-is-to-blame-for-shootings-after-he-tries-to-pass-the-buck-n2608249\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Krasner was rebuked<\/a> for his attempt to pin blame for shootings in Philly on the NRA and law-abiding firearm owners while calling for more gun control laws. Additional laws, Krasner&#8217;s critics pointed out, wouldn&#8217;t stop criminals from using illegal guns to commit their crimes. Nor would Krasner be likely to enforce new laws \u2014 he&#8217;s said so himself. &#8220;We do not believe that arresting people and convicting them for illegal gun possession is a viable strategy to reduce shootings,&#8221; the district attorney once said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While it&#8217;s unclear how far the Pennsylvania legislators&#8217; attempt to hold Krasner accountable will go, Boudin&#8217;s recall in San Francisco \u2014 which would not have happened without Democrat voters \u2014 should give the any DA tied to the so-called &#8220;progressive prosecutor&#8221; movement pause.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three Republican lawmakers in Pennsylvania are looking to take down Philadelphia&#8217;s progressive Democrat district attorney \u2014 Larry Krasner \u2014 in the wake of San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin&#8217;s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1518072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1518072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1518072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1518072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1518072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}