Broad + Liberty editors call the alleged conduct "misconduct worthy of disbarment and removal from office"
Editorial board of Broad + Liberty, in an unsigned institutional editorial
“If even half of it is true, it is misconduct worthy of disbarment and removal from office.”
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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.
Before the quotation
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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Case context: Did Larry Krasner Pressure Staff to Mislead a Federal Judge About a Murder-Conviction Appeal?
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Why this label?
The case's fixed reference point is whether Krasner pressured subordinate prosecutors to present a false account to a federal judge. 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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