Maggie Gibson - Kathleen Kane, Former Pennsylvania Attorney General, Is Sentenced to Prison

In Norristown, Pennsylvania, a judge sentenced the elected attorney general Kathleen Kane to 10 to 23 months in prison on charges of perjury and abuse of her office. At the time of her election, she had no political experience and to change dramatically the male-dominated, "corrupt" government of the time. She had some successes throughout her career. However, in order to discredit a critic, she did illegally leaked grand jury records and then lied about it to a different grand jury. She was found guilty of two felony perjury charges and seven misdemeanor counts, and a forced resignation followed. She got the shorter sentence for her crimes on behalf of the pleas of her teenage sons. The article goes on to describe the mishaps of her career. Her controversial actions, including nepotism and the shutting down of a possible successful case, led to many critics and condemnation. One of these critics she tried to discredit by leaking grand jury information to the Philadelphia Daily News, eventually leading to her downfall.
The author of this article showed a negative bias toward Kathleen Kane. Her mishaps and mistakes are highlighted throughout the article, as opposed to her successes (few though there may be). This article highlights the successes and mistakes of our democratic and elective process. She had a few good qualities, but overall she was a poor attorney general, but she managed to stay in power for four years despite her poor skills, showing the weakness of electing officials by popular vote. However, the strength of the government is shown through her removal from office and her punishment, and how the government can remove corrupt officials to replace them with better ones. This exemplifies the beneficial effects of the separation of powers. This can be synthesized to how Andrew Jackson overrode the decisions of the supreme court multiple times, however he was NOT impeached, displaying a flaw in our system.
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