florida governor, ron desantis abruptly removed a twice elected prosecutor just last year, why? because he refused to go after people who seek and provide abortions or provide gender affirming care to transgender people. andrew warren sued desantis and now a federal judge dismissed that lawsuit saying his action of the governor did violate the first amendment and florida s constitution, but, as a federal judge he couldn t rule against a state official based only on the violation of state law. and the wake of that ruling today, andrew warren joins me now. andrew, thank you for coming, i know that we talked when this first happened so i ve been curiously following this particular suit, and the federal judge did take governor desantis word for the suspension, but, he upheld it, why do you think that was in your opinion? thank you for having me back. as you said, the judge took the governor s to task. the governor violated federal and state law in suspending me. he said that t
is not based on politics, and in fact, it s about your job performance. because of that, do you have an intention to appeal, is there a mechanicism you will pursue to get reinstated. the fact that the governor s spokesperson came out and said something clearly contrary to what the order says, it just shows, i mean, they live in alternate reality where the judge says there s absolutely no misconduct, andrew hasn t done anything wrong and they re saying, see, it s exactly what we said, he did something wrong. it shows that they will say anything to promote their own agenda. in terms of next steps, we ll figure that out. this was never a fight about me and my job, this was the battle of democracy, for free speech and the integrity of our elections.