Broad + Liberty editors call the alleged conduct "misconduct worthy of disbarment and removal from office"
Broad + LibertyEditorial board of Broad + Liberty, in an unsigned institutional editorial
The editorial board of Broad + Liberty argued that Judge Diamond's findings, if even half true, would amount to misconduct warranting Krasner's disbarment and removal from office. It presented the referral as the culmination of what it called a train of abuses, asserted that Krasner had refused to adequately prosecute crime while working to release convicted felons, and called on Democratic legislators to set partisanship aside in responding.
“If even half of it is true, it is misconduct worthy of disbarment and removal from office.”
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Did Larry Krasner Pressure Staff to Mislead a Federal Judge About a Murder-Conviction Appeal?
A federal judge in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania found that Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner and Matthew Stiegler, chief of his office's Conviction Integrity Unit, may have pressured subordinate prosecutors to blame a departed colleague and present a false account to the court about an internal dispute over a 2022 concession in a habeas corpus case, and referred Krasner, Stiegler, and the District Attorney's Office to the U.S. Attorney's Office for investigation. Krasner disputes the judge's findings and says he will appeal.
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A Philadelphia-region opinion outlet's editorial calling on Democratic legislators to act against Krasner. It presents Diamond's referral as the culmination of what it calls a train of abuses and argues the matter should not divide along party lines. Its conclusion about disbarment and removal is expressly conditioned on the allegations being at least half true.
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Diamond's ruling had been issued two days earlier. Krasner's Republican critics had renewed long-standing objections to him, while no elected Democrats had publicly defended him.
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The Philadelphia Inquirer's editorial board published its own assessment the following day, stopping short of calling for his removal.
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The editorial treats that conduct as disqualifying and refers to "Krasner's misdeeds" as established. The closest competing label is “Mixed or conditional”, and it is a genuine contender: the sentence on disbarment is expressly conditioned on the allegations being at least half true. That loses because the condition attaches to the remedy rather than to the board's evaluation; elsewhere the editorial asserts his misdeeds as fact and treats the pattern as settled, so the conclusion does not turn on an unresolved condition.
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The Dispute Index. "Broad + Liberty editors call the alleged conduct "misconduct worthy of disbarment and removal from office"". First published: 2026-09-18. Last updated: 2026-09-22. https://disputeindex.com/events/1052-the-editorial-board-of-broad-liberty-argued-that