And why should she? She's only following Eric "The Red" Holder's lawless example that he's been effortlessly getting away with for the past six years:
Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane is leaving it to the governor’s office to defend a lawsuit challenging a law backed by the National Rifle Association that was designed to dismantle illegal municipal firearms ordinances, officials said Friday.
A spokesman for Governor Tom Corbett said the governor’s legal office will defend the law against the challenge led by Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Lancaster. Kane’s office sent word earlier in the week that she would not take the case.
That would be in the two weeks that the governor's legal office remains under Tom Corbett's control. Here's hoping they have a "maximum overdrive" setting.
Corbett, a Republican who opposes new forms of gun control, signed the law last month. The law widens the ability of the NRA or gun owners to successfully sue over municipal firearms ordinances.
“We can find no legitimate reason for the attorney general to decline to defend the commonwealth in this case,” said Corbett’s spokesman, Jay Pagni.
And there isn't one. As Pennsylvania's top law enforcement official, it is Kathleen Kane's job to enforce ALL the laws of the Keystone State, not just the ones with which she agrees. But as alluded to in the lede above, leftwing bureaucratic nullification of duly-enacted statutes to which they are hostile now has ample precedent, which means that Kane would get away with her dereliction of duty even if fellow Donk Tom Wolf wasn't replacing Governor Corbett in two weeks. Which just gets back to why she should bother taking up a case that the new guv will nullify for her.
If any Pennsylvanians are outraged by this blatant defiance of the expressed will of the people through their elected representatives, just remember: Y'all also elected Kane and Wolf. Which means you voted for the nullification of the pro-gun law you wanted passed, and you have a minimum of four years before you can do anything about it.
Suckers.
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