The Pennsylvania Supreme Court handed Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner another victory in his effort to block a long-stalled impeachment drive, ruling that state lawmakers who tried to remove him from office two years ago had improperly attempted to stretch that process across two different legislative sessions.

Leading Republicans say the Philly DA, elected to a second term but under fire elsewhere in the state, is ignoring the city's violence.

In a groundbreaking decision on Thursday, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court officially threw out the Articles of Impeachment against Philadelphia District

Charges against the city's top prosecutor expired when the 2021-2022 legislative session ended, Chief Justice Debra Todd writes.

Pennsylvania state lawmakers who tried to impeach Philadelphia’s elected progressive prosecutor improperly tried to stretch that process across two different legislative sessions, the state's highest court ruled Thursday.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that Pa. state lawmakers who tried to impeach Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner improperly tried to stretch that process across two different legislative sessions.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court handed Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner another victory in his effort to block a long-stalled impeachment drive, ruling that state lawmakers who tried to remove him from office two years ago had improperly attempted to stretch that process across two different legislative sessions.

In its ruling, the state Supreme Court found the articles of impeachment “became null and void” when that legislative session came to a close.

Krasner, who was first elected in 2018, was criticized for his progressive criminal justice policies and was one of several Democratic prosecutors targeted by Republicans in the backlash of racial unrest following the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer in 2020.