So, Jeb Bush should commit an impeachable offense. He is acting within the law. The same people who trash the left for acting outside their legal authority, want our guys to do it when it suits their needs. When they refuse to do it, they claim moral superiority and threaten to not vote or vote third party next emlection.
Your thoughts, please.
P.S. How's the new political party coming, now that you've left the GOP?
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I support Keyes viewpoint on this issue.
Jeb, nor any other Gov has the right to be King.
This is a stupid article. The people are going to have to force a change in our Judicial system. Jeb Bush is not God, never claimed to be and is limited as to how much he can do.
You've got to be kidding. Please.
There can be no executive authority in the state of Florida higher than the governor. No state law can create an executive authority higher than highest in the Florida constitution. Therefore no court order based upon such a law can constitutionally create such an authority. If the governor tells the local police in Pinellas County to step aside, they must do so, or else be arrested and tried for an assault on the government of the state, which is to say insurrection.
By Keyes' "logic", it is entirely lawful for the governor of Florida to order the police into your home, string up a rope, and hang you on your own porch. Because by definition, any order he gives to the police is lawful because he's the "supreme executive authority".
If Keyes' argument was worth the effort, I'd explain why his legal analysis of the governor's authority is bogus. But its enough just to point out the less desireable results Keyes is endorsing with this ridiculous "supreme executive authority" argument.
IMVHO, Mr. Keyes has eating a big bowl of stupid-o's for breakfast every morning for at least two years, now. :P
Although I made my feelings known, for the most part, I held back when Keyes was running against Obama. Mostly, out of deference to Jim, who supported Keyes. I wish I hadn't now. Most of us knew he was going to be lucky to break out of single digits, and most of us knew why he was going to do so poorly. We're just seeing more of the same right now.
The Florida governor can suspend the sheriff of any county (or any county official not subject to legislative impeachment) for misfeasance (such as obstructing the lawful duty of the DCF) and appoint his own man as a replacement. Then he can have them stand down.
I've been emailing this around but no one has responded:
FLORIDA CONSTITUTION
ARTICLE VIII - County Government
Section 1
(d) COUNTY OFFICERS. There shall be elected by the electors of each county, for terms of four years, a sheriff, a tax collector, a property appraiser, a supervisor of elections, and a clerk of the circuit court;
ARTICLE IV - Executive
SECTION 7. Suspensions; filling office during suspensions.--
(a) By executive order stating the grounds and filed with the custodian of state records, the governor may suspend from office any state officer not subject to impeachment, any officer of the militia not in the active service of the United States, or any county officer, for malfeasance, misfeasance, neglect of duty, drunkenness, incompetence, permanent inability to perform official duties, or commission of a felony, and may fill the office by appointment for the period of suspension. The suspended officer may at any time before removal be reinstated by the governor.
ARTICLE III - Legislative
SECTION 17. Impeachment.--
(a) The governor, lieutenant governor, members of the cabinet, justices of the supreme court, judges of district courts of appeal, judges of circuit courts, and judges of county courts shall be liable to impeachment for misdemeanor in office.
Good article.
This does not give the governor the right to ignore a judicial ruling. Yes, he's the supreme executive power but there are three branches of government.