Despite Kane’s resignation, panel considering impeachment
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Despite Kathleen Kane’s resignation as Pennsylvania’s attorney general after her conviction on perjury charges this week, a state House panel is still considering impeachment.
The chairman of a key state House panel says he will continue to push for impeachment to set the stage for Senate action that could bar Kane from elected office in the future.
Republican State Rep. Todd Stephens, who chairs a House subcommittee that had been investigating Kane, says her conviction underscored the need for the legislative action.
Kane was convicted of leaking secret grand jury information to smear a rival and lying under oath to cover it up.
Stephens says “impeachment is the only mechanism today that can ensure” Kane won’t serve elected office again.