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
prosecutors, 94% of the prosecutors in america are elected. but then when they behave in a manner in line with the voter that put them there, they get introuble. you see it here with andrew and the governor and prosecutors across the country. it s an odd scenario where we ask these folks to run for office and then either ask them to behave in an apolitical way. it doesn t make sense. it doesn t. i mean, the idea even with culture wars, more broadly, much of culture wars are based little in fact, it s more on the hyperbole, and the peak, or push salt into wound which may be a hy hypothetical. i see, although this does impact a prosecutor and the administration of justice, but,