# Krasner Impeachment The **impeachment of Larry Krasner** by the Pennsylvania House of Representatives was the first impeachment by that chamber since 1994 and the furthest any American state legislature has gone toward removing an elected [[Progressive Prosecutor]] by legislative action. House Republicans formed a select committee on Philadelphia gun violence in June 2022; [[Larry Krasner]] refused its subpoena as politically motivated and was held in contempt that September. Articles were filed October 26, 2022, and the House voted **107–85** to impeach on **November 16, 2022**. The effort then failed on the law rather than on the politics: a Commonwealth Court judge ruled on December 30, 2022 that the alleged conduct did not meet the state constitution's "misbehavior in office" standard, the Senate indefinitely postponed the trial on January 11, 2023, and the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania ruled on September 26, 2024 that the articles had expired with the legislative session that produced them. The structural point is the same one at issue in the [[Chesa Boudin Recall]] and in the Florida, Georgia, Texas and Missouri prosecutor-removal mechanisms of the same period: where a reform prosecutor cannot be beaten in the jurisdiction that elects them, the response has been to seek removal from outside it. > [!note] Stub > Expand: the select committee's composition and findings, the specific articles, the contempt fight, the Commonwealth Court opinion, the Senate's handling, and the comparison to the other state prosecutor-removal mechanisms of 2022–2024. ## See Also - [[Larry Krasner]] · [[Progressive Prosecutor]] · [[Chesa Boudin Recall]]