Pennsylvania Senate Falls Short on Ousting Attorney General
- Senate needed two-thirds majority to remove Kane from office
- Kathleen Kane's law license suspended amid criminal charges
The State Capitol building stands in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on Oct. 20, 2011.
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The Pennsylvania Senate fell four votes short of passing a measure that could have forced the state’s embattled attorney general from office.
Kathleen Kane, the first woman and the first Democrat elected to the post in 2012, has been mired in controversy for much of her first term, including a probe of state prosecutors and a Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice over their use of government e-mail for pornographic material. She hasn’t ruled out running for a second term even as she faces charges for leaking grand jury information related to that dispute.