HARRISBURG, Pa. (Reuters) - None of the three legal experts called before a Pennsylvania Senate panel on Tuesday were willing to recommend that embattled Attorney General Kathleen Kane be removed from office now that her law license has been suspended.
Although stripped of her license in late October because she faces criminal charges of leaking secret grand jury information to a newspaper reporter, Kane, the first woman and first Democrat elected to the office, has kept running her 700-employee agency.
At the start of a two-day hearing into whether she should be removed from office, a Republican-dominated special Senate committee asked legal ethics experts whether they could say that her suspended law license was "reasonable cause" to recommend forcing her from office.