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Puddin’ Fingers DeSantis now has the power to override the will of voters and remove almost any prosecutor he doesn’t like.
The anti-democratic decision came from an all-Republican court, natch.
The ruling was in response to State Attorney Monique Worrell's challenge of her suspension by Gov. Ron DeSantis. DeSantis seems to be making a habit of suspending duly-elected prosecutors he doesn’t like.
Law Dork’s Chris Geidner called the ruling “a stark escalation of the line of cases and, ultimately, of the governor’s power.” It’s also a stark diminution of the voters’ power.
On a 6-1 vote Thursday, the Florida Supreme Court gave its governor all-but-unfettered power to remove locally elected prosecutors — a power that could quickly render Floridians’ “freedom” to “vote” for a prosecutor a fiction unless federal courts step in.
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