PENN LIVE: A Senate vote to remove Kathleen Kane from office planned for Wednesday may seem like an end…
As of Tuesday, it remained unclear if proponents of Kane’s removal had the two-thirds majority necessary to invoke a clause in the state Constitution that was last used — unsuccessfully — in the 19th century…
[Former Attorney General Waltler] Cohen said Kane’s most likely legal recourse would be another king’s bench petition with the state Supreme Court over that issue or the court’s earlier suspension ruling, which stipulated that the action was not tantamount to her removal from office. Ledewitz also pointed out that much of the original debate around the direct address clause upon its addition to the constitution in the 19th century concerned its use in the event of physical incapacity… (more)
