House resolution on impeaching Supreme Court Justice Melvin offered

HARRISBURG PATRIOT-NEWS:  Saying Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court has been operating long enough without a seventh member, two House members have introduced a bi-partisan resolution authorizing a bipartisan impeachment investigation of convicted Supreme Court Justice Joan Orie Melvin.

Reps. Glen Grell, R-Hampden Twp. and John Sabatina, D-Philadelphia, see this step as necessary to restore the public’s trust in the state’s justice system and to fulfill the Legislature’s constitutional obligation to impeach a justice convicted of a crime…

The full House would have to approve the resolution to launch the impeachment investigation… (more)

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