{"id":1715626,"date":"2022-10-29T06:07:07","date_gmt":"2022-10-29T10:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1715626"},"modified":"2022-10-29T06:19:19","modified_gmt":"2022-10-29T10:19:19","slug":"pa-legislature-moves-to-impeach-soros-backed-philly-da","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pa-legislature-moves-to-impeach-soros-backed-philly-da\/","title":{"rendered":"PA Legislature Moves to Impeach Soros-Backed 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%2Fpa-legislature-moves-to-impeach-soros-backed-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=1715626&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/cef9bcf5-36ce-43aa-8bd0-b94b9fbdb92f.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p id=\"isPasted\">The national media and some Democrats are rushing to defend John Fetterman, the Democratic Pennsylvania lieutenant governor running for the U.S. Senate, who performed miserably against Republican candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz in Tuesday night\u2019s debate. It will be the only event of its kind before Election Day, and most voters walked away curious about whether Fetterman, who suffered a severe stroke last spring, could execute the duties of the office. The former Braddock mayor struggled to string coherent sentences together while Oz performed well, demonstrating a firm grasp of the issues and laying out his agenda for the people of the Keystone State.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Fetterman\u2019s camp went so far as to blame the closed captioning system, one of his campaign\u2019s stipulations for the debate, for the messy deliveries. No one is buying that, but Oz\u2019s camp offered a do-over debate should Mr. Fetterman agree. As Democratic operatives are reportedly in full panic mode, he won&#8217;t, adding that this debate might have killed Democratic chances for picking up this seat being vacated by outgoing Republican Sen. Pat Toomey.<\/p>\n<p>One issue that has helped Oz mount a comeback in his race is hitting on Fetterman\u2019s horrible record on public safety. He doesn\u2019t shy away from the view that life imprisonment should be abolished for murderers while also advocating to release of one-third of PA\u2019s prison population. With crime spiking, this issue has become a top concern for voters this cycle. It could get another healthy dose of media coverage as the state legislature mulls an impeachment vote against Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner for dereliction of duty regarding gun violence. He\u2019s too soft on those committing these firearm-related felonies, which isn\u2019t good news for Fetterman since he endorsed the man for re-election (via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/10\/26\/us\/larry-krasner-philadelphia-impeachment.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NYT<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Republicans in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives filed articles of impeachment on Wednesday against Larry Krasner, the unabashedly progressive district attorney of Philadelphia, charging that he had been \u201cderelict in his obligations\u201d to prosecute crimes in a city struggling with a spike in gun violence.<\/p>\n<p>In a news conference, State Representative Martina White, a Republican who represents part of northeast Philadelphia and is the prime sponsor of the impeachment resolution, accused Mr. Krasner of being \u201cresponsible for the rise in crime across our city,\u201d saying that he had \u201ctipped the scales of justice in favor of criminals.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The articles were filed two days after a legislative committee issued a report castigating Mr. Krasner\u2019s nearly five-year tenure as district attorney, but not recommending impeachment. The committee, charged with investigating how laws are enforced in Philadelphia, has not completed its work. But at the news conference, State Representative Kerry Benninghoff, the House majority leader, said the duty of the legislature was \u201cto not stick our head in the sand like a lot of other people and do nothing and hope this suddenly gets better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This first step in the impeachment process, coming on the last scheduled legislative day before the midterm elections, had been anticipated and condemned as \u201ca political stunt\u201d by Mr. Krasner last week.\u00a0<\/p>\n[\u2026]\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Krasner\u2019s approach has led to some friction with other city leaders. Philadelphia\u2019s police commissioner, Danielle Outlaw, said in a recent statement that the police were repeatedly arresting people with \u201cextensive criminal histories,\u201d and that \u201cthe question needs to be asked as to why they were yet again back out on the street.\u201d The House included her statement in the articles of impeachment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The report that the House committee issued on Monday included data showing that the number of illegal gun possession cases ending in convictions had fallen significantly in Philadelphia, with a much higher proportion being withdrawn or dismissed there than in most other places in the state.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0[\u2026]\n<p>The first article of impeachment charges that Mr. Krasner\u2019s approach to enforcing laws rose to the level of the \u201cmisbehavior in office,\u201d which the state Constitution cites as a basis for impeachment. The second article charges him with having \u201cobstructed the efforts\u201d of the legislative committee, recounting the months of battles between the committee and Mr. Krasner\u2019s office, including a lawsuit challenging the committee itself and a vote by the House finding Mr. Krasner in contempt for not complying with a subpoena.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, will it have an impact on Pennsylvania? Fetterman\u2019s onstage meltdown against Oz sealed the deal, but it could give some more oxygen to the fan the flames of the law and order narrative Oz is selling. A narrative that has reportedly put the state\u2019s suburbs in play. Either way, for Fetterman, the news of a local DA that you endorsed being on the verge of being impeached because he\u2019s too weak to enforce the law this close to D-Day isn\u2019t good.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Also, Democrats shouldn\u2019t obsess about early voting <a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/mattvespa\/2022\/10\/25\/dems-and-the-liberal-media-love-this-story-but-avoid-it-entirely-on-election-day-n2614941\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">because it doesn\u2019t matter<\/a>. First, these instances make a good case for why early voting should be limited even more since I\u2019m sure a healthy number of Pennsylvanians are probably second-guessing their vote for a guy who could barely put together a cogent thought. Second, the Democrats\u2019 early voting advantage says next to nothing about how the state will lean in the end. North Carolina Democrats have a ten-point early voting advantage right now. It was 13 points in 2016\u2014and Trump took the state. It\u2019s just not news, and no discernable election data points can be gleaned from it.<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The national media and some Democrats are rushing to defend John Fetterman, the Democratic Pennsylvania lieutenant governor running for the U.S. Senate, who performed miserably against Republican candidate Dr. Mehmet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1715629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1715626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715626","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=1715626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1715629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1715626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1715626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1715626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}