HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania’s embattled attorney general faces a fourth and final Senate hearing this week in a process that could lead to her removal from office on grounds that she can’t perform the duties of the job while her law license remains suspended.

Attorney General Kathleen Kane said through a spokesman Friday she does not intend to be there when the Special Committee on Senate Address convenes Tuesday to hear from her, a prerequisite under an obscure state constitutional provision that may soon be used against her.

The spokesman, Chuck Ardo, said that Kane expects to meet a deadline of noon today to submit a written statement of some sort, and that her supporters may speak on her behalf. Kane, a first-term Democrat, has said the Senate cannot remove her on its own to avoid the process of a House impeachment followed by a Senate trial under a different section of the state constitution.

“She believes it’s unconstitutional, but she also, out of respect for the Senate as an institution, feels it necessary to respond,” Ardo said.

Tuesday’s hearing will be followed within 15 days by a committee report. It’s unclear whether the full Senate will take up Kane’s possible removal, which would require a supermajority.

Kane’s license was placed on temporary, indefinite suspension by the state Supreme Court about two months after prosecutors in suburban Philadelphia charged her in August with criminal violations that include leaking secret grand jury information.