Link
"And then came an opportunity to claim Kane broke the law by releasing impounded material from a six year old grand jury report to the Philadelphia Daily News (a’Man bites dog’ event of a newspaper exposing its alleged source!)
Suppose the indictment charged murder, grand theft, rape, or corruption? There might be good reason to force the party out of office.
For giving information for a news article, which Kane denies having done, should such an indictment for such a penny ante offense be an automatic ticket to oblivion?
And what sort of power does this give to accusers? They don’t have to prove a damn thing. “New York State chief judge Sol Wachtler was famously quoted by Tom Wolfe in The Bonfire of the Vanities that ‘a grand jury would
“indict a ham sandwich,” if that’s what you wanted.’
In this case we have Republicans accusers, a Republican prosecutor, Republican District Attorney and Republican judge.
What sort of precedent would forcing Kane out of office over such small change set? What invitation for future abuse by members of either party… or just malcontents?"