Mirkarimi's lawyers call ouster action political

Mayor Ed Lee's effort to oust suspended Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi for official misconduct is "transparently political" and relies on an illegally vague law while ignoring more than 100 years of precedent, Mirkarimi's attorneys wrote in briefs filed Tuesday.

Only twice before since the city's Charter was established in 1900 has a mayor tried to remove an elected official for misconduct; one