It was indefensible the first time Ron DeSantis suspended a local elected prosecutor in Florida without cause. As stevebenen writes, almost exactly a year later, the governor has nevertheless done it again.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has once again suspended an elected local prosecutor, a move that comes as his presidential campaign struggles amid a continued reset. DeSantis on Tuesday suspended Orlando-area State Attorney Monique Worrell, a Democrat who is the only Black woman serving as a local prosecutor in Florida.
If this sounds at all familiar, it’s not your imagination. It was a year ago this week when the Republican governor Hillsborough County State Attorney Andrew Warren, complaining that the local prosecutor wasn’t prosecuting the kind of culture war cases DeSantis wanted to see.noted at the time that DeSantis’ order suspending the state attorney did not cite “any specific examples of Warren not prosecuting individual cases, pointing instead to Warren’s public comments on abortion, transgender issues and office policies Warren has adopted.
In effect, the governor told Hillsborough County voters, “Sure, you may have chosen a state attorney through the democratic process, but I think I know better.”noted while DeSantis said his move against Warren was necessary in the interests of “public safety,” the claim was completely baseless: “Mr. DeSantis and his advisers had failed to find a connection between Mr. Warren’s policies and public safety in his community.”in the local crime statistics to justify the local prosecutor’s suspension.
, and announced the suspension of a Democratic state attorney — who also happens to be Florida’s only Black woman serving as a local prosecutor.
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