FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2015
CONTACT: GENE STILP
717-829-5600
genestilp@comcast.net
“KANE IS NOT ABLE” CAMPAIGN URGES GOVERNOR AND
SENATE TO BEGIN ARTICLE VI SECTION 7 HEARING PROCESS
TO REMOVE KATHLEEN KANE FROM OFFICE
CAMPAIGN AGAIN URGES PA SUPREME COURT TO SUSPEND KANE’S
LAW LICENSE THUS GUARANTEEING KANE’S INABILITY TO RUN
FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL IN 2016
Good government activist Gene Stilp outlined some of the upcoming paths in the ongoing Kathleen Kane story. Gene Stilp filed the original complaint and request for investigation with the Pennsylvania Supreme Court Disciplinary Board on August 11, 2015 and the original complaint and request for investigation before the Pennsylvania State Ethics Commission on August 18, 2015.
Stilp said, “The Pennsylvania Supreme Court will most likely act in the very near future to suspend Kathleen Kane’s Pennsylvania law license. They also may come up with some other outcome, for example, somehow completely removing her as the attorney general. But that has a low probability. The most likely outcome is a suspension of her law license as early as today.
When the Pennsylvania Supreme Court suspends Attorney General Kathleen Kane law license her effective days as Pennsylvania’s attorney general are over. She can still serve but with her legal ability completely restricted and her administrative duties very limited. The other benefit to the citizens of Pennsylvania is that Kane will not run for attorney general in 2016 because a law license is required to be qualified to be attorney general.
Now comes the hard part of the “Kane Is Not Able” campaign. The campaign is urging immediate action by Governor Tom Wolf and the Pennsylvania Senate to immediate institute the process outlined in Article VI Section 7 of the Pennsylvania Constitution to remove Kathleen Kane as attorney general.
The “hearing” that is mentioned in the constitution has to have all the protections and fairness that are guaranteed under the Constitution for regular procedures. The bottom line is that the hearing process has to be full developed and approved before the action can go forward. Hopefully the Senate and Governor’s office have been working jointly to assure fairness. No one knows what the standard will be, “preponderance of the evidence,” “beyond a reasonable doubt” or some combination. Whatever it is the average Pennsylvanian has to believe it is reasonable and fair.
It is guaranteed that no matter what hearing process is developed, Kane’s attorneys will immediately challenge that hearing process before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
In the end the citizens of Pennsylvania may have to wait for the other more traditional process, the impeachment process, to unfold in the House of Representatives. That usually takes place after a conviction in the courts. No time table has been set for Kane’s hearing on the criminal charges. With appeals that could be a while.
Who knows which process will be faster. Will the Article VI, Section 7 process with appeals remove her faster than outright impeachment? One must wait and see.”