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DeSantis-appointed justices uphold DeSantis's suspending of democratically-elected state prosecutor

Indeed it is. Talk about weaponizing government. DeSantis is writing the book about it. Follow Orban in Hungary, what he has done and what his is doing and you'll discover where DeSantis gets many of his ideas.

I follow Florida because I lived there for 10 years. I was an acquaintance of several state legislators, a former President of Florida State University, had the personnel phone number of a former governor (he wanted me to do favors for him), and lobbyists in Tallahassee. The experience was like being thrown into a snake pit.
 
It seems Republicans want to turn America into a police state where the base spies on other Americans and reports to the GOP gestapo.
 
The only way this gets any better is for the federal government to step in and put its foot down on the necks of DeSantis and his cronies.

It's really a police state in Florida.

I have long recommended that people move out of that hell hole.
 
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Florida Supreme Court Sides with DeSantis over Removal of Soros-Backed Prosecutor - Tennessee Star

On Thursday, the Florida Supreme Court ruled in favor of Governor Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) over his decision to remove a far-left prosecutor from her post.
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DeSantis first suspended State Attorney Monique Worrell (pictured above) in August of 2023, accusing her of “dereliction of duty” due to her soft-on-crime policies. Worrel subsequently sued the DeSantis Administration and demanded that she be reinstated, claiming that her firing was an “arbitrary, unsubstantiated exercise of the suspension power.”


The Florida Supreme Court ruled 6-1 in DeSantis’ favor.


“We cannot agree with Worrel that the allegations in the Executive Order are impermissibly vague, nor that they address conduct that falls within the lawful exercise of prosecutorial discretion,” the majority’s opinion declared. “We have said that a suspension order does not infringe on a state attorney’s lawful exercise of prosecutorial discretion where it alleges that such discretion is, in fact, not being exercised in individual cases but, rather, that generalized policies have resulted in categorical enforcement practices.”
When she was first elected in 2020, Worrel’s campaign was supported by Our Vote Our Voice, a left-wing group that had received $1 million from Democracy Now, a far-left group supported by George Soros. Our Vote Our Voice subsequently spent $1.5 million in support of Worrel’s campaign.


DeSantis had previously fired another prosecutor in the state in August of 2022, when he removed Hillsborough County State Attorney Andrew Warren over his refusal to enforce the state’s abortion ban. That removal was also upheld in court at the federal level.
 
anatta said:
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Florida Supreme Court Sides with DeSantis over Removal of Soros-Backed Prosecutor - Tennessee Star

On Thursday, the Florida Supreme Court ruled in favor of Governor Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) over his decision to remove a far-left prosecutor from her post.
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DeSantis first suspended State Attorney Monique Worrell (pictured above) in August of 2023, accusing her of “dereliction of duty” due to her soft-on-crime policies. Worrel subsequently sued the DeSantis Administration and demanded that she be reinstated, claiming that her firing was an “arbitrary, unsubstantiated exercise of the suspension power.”


The Florida Supreme Court ruled 6-1 in DeSantis’ favor.


“We cannot agree with Worrel that the allegations in the Executive Order are impermissibly vague, nor that they address conduct that falls within the lawful exercise of prosecutorial discretion,” the majority’s opinion declared. “We have said that a suspension order does not infringe on a state attorney’s lawful exercise of prosecutorial discretion where it alleges that such discretion is, in fact, not being exercised in individual cases but, rather, that generalized policies have resulted in categorical enforcement practices.”
When she was first elected in 2020, Worrel’s campaign was supported by Our Vote Our Voice, a left-wing group that had received $1 million from Democracy Now, a far-left group supported by George Soros. Our Vote Our Voice subsequently spent $1.5 million in support of Worrel’s campaign.


DeSantis had previously fired another prosecutor in the state in August of 2022, when he removed Hillsborough County State Attorney Andrew Warren over his refusal to enforce the state’s abortion ban. That removal was also upheld in court at the federal level.
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Yes, the court allows the governor to fire democratically elected DAs because he politically disagrees with them.
 
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