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Florida Supreme Court lets DeSantis veto voters, oust elected officials
The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday refused to reinstate suspended Orlando-area State Attorney Monique Worrell — an allegedly soft-on-crime prosecutor despised by Florida sheriffs — finding that Gov. Ron DeSantis has virtually unlimited power to remove elected prosecutors as long as he provides only the thinnest veneer of justification.
Not a great precedent. Hopefully this isn’t a preview of the next Trump administration.
NO MALARKEY
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Florida Supreme Court lets DeSantis veto voters, oust elected officials
The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday refused to reinstate suspended Orlando-area State Attorney Monique Worrell — an allegedly soft-on-crime prosecutor despised by Florida sheriffs — finding that Gov. Ron DeSantis has virtually unlimited power to remove elected prosecutors as long as he provides only the thinnest veneer of justification.
https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/columns/nate-monroe/2024/06/07/nate-monroe-florida-supreme-court-allows-desantis-to-veto-voter-decisions/74012074007/ Not a great precedent. Hopefully this isn’t a preview of the next Trump administration.[/quote]
I agree with you. If Trump wins, the Dems will again try to veto the voters like they did in the last election. DeSantis may have had the thinnest veneer of justifications, but that’s a hell of a lot more than Schiff and Dems had a few years back. They did it twice on pure BS. Talking about precedent? Sheesh.
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Imagine a world where a local community elects a prosecutor that won’t prosecute certain crimes due to politics. You know, crimes like, say, lynching.
You might want the governor to have some power to stand on the side of justice in such a case.
I’m betting that this “fascism” is a vestige of reconstruction. And it isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Why is it that our population has become so ignorant of the downsides of direct democracy?
Democracy is three wolves and a sheep deciding what’s for dinner.
There has to be mechanisms for protection of minority rights, whether the minority is a disenfranchised but newly freed slave or a white kid who deserves not to be assaulted at the local convenience store.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)
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