Posted on 09/23/2022 1:50:57 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
A Florida prosecutor suspended by Ron DeSantis for defying a new 15-week abortion law says a federal judge’s decision to send his reinstatement appeal to trial means a reckoning is coming for the state’s Republican governor.
Andrew Warren, a Democrat, was removed as Hillsborough county state attorney on 4 August after saying he would not enforce the abortion ban or prosecute providers of gender transition treatment for young people.
DeSantis cited Warren’s alleged “woke agenda” in reasons for his decision.
At a hearing in Tallahassee on Monday, Judge Robert Hinkle denied motions from DeSantis to dismiss Warren’s lawsuit, and another by Warren seeking an immediate return to office, instead requesting their differences be settled at a trial in the coming weeks.
The closely watched case is expected to give clarity to DeSantis’s power to purge elected officials who disagree with him. In recent weeks, the governor has also removed four members of a school board in Broward county that defied him over Covid-19 mask mandates.
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” purge elected officials who disagree with him”
Wrong! The prosecutor put in writing that he would not enforce the laws.
Those who thought DeSantis would be better than Trump in
2024, are going to learn the hard way that the Left will
seek to destroy whoever leads our cause.
How absurd is this, the governor holding a guy to account
who is not abiding by the law in Florida, and a judge
actually thinks there’s a case against him?
Some of these judges need frontier justice.
“Those who thought DeSantis would be better than Trump in
2024, are going to learn the hard way that the Left will
seek to destroy whoever leads our cause.”
BINGO.
The governor did not dismiss Warren simply because he (Warren) disagreed with him. He dismissed the prosecutor because he publicly announced his intention to ignore the law of Florida. There is a vast difference between the two positions.
The closely watched case is expected to give clarity to DeSantis’s power to purge elected officials who disagree with him
um... no... it’s as simple as someone REFUSING to do their job and follow the LAW!
he can “disagree with DeSantis” all he wants, as long as he had DONE HIS JOB!
But he refused to do so, and made that refusal public and lost his job because of it. End of story.
Easy decision by any court.
Why is a Federal Judge even involved in this?
I do like Governor Desantis and you’re right. They’re going to go after him with all the fury that the deep state can muster. The entire federal and half the state governments are going to beat this man into the ground. And then they’re going to ruin his name and cheat him in the elections.
He’d better hold fast!
Best question of the post.
That goes without saying.
Of course they're going to try to destroy anyone who wins the GOP nomination, whether it's Donald Trump himself or someone they'll quickly label, "Just like Donald Trump, but worse!"
I'm not losing any sleep over this. Ron DeSantis has shown that he's willing to punch back. And I'm certain he was expecting and preparing for exactly this response. The left isn't just going to let us fire their woke prosecutors and Marxist school board officials without a fight.
Yellow journalist much.
The damn judges are the source of most of our country’s problems.
I like Desantis, BUT this makes me uncomfortable. I don’t want to feel uncomfortable. I like Trump, too, but you know, the thing. It is time to take a second look at Liz Cheney.
/s for those of you in Rio Linda.
Just post the DU nonsense .
Odd headline. Makes it sound like the governor is personally on trial.
This DA is going to lose... and lose big. He took an oath to faithfully execute the laws of the state of Florida. You can’t pick & chose. He was derelict.
I suspect the judge simply wants a trial to make that point.
” purge elected officials who disagree with him”
This is the kind of BS l would expect from The Guardian via Yahoo
Yes, for a year leading up to Trump announcing his candidacy and thereafter the Left went after him through the courts.
Same plan as done against Trump.
It’s call Lawfare. Continuously take your opponents to trial in an effort to convict, keep them on defense, destroy their reputation, wear them down, or bankrupt them.
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