Floridaâs Ashley Moody disavows politics, but fights Trumpâs battles
The state attorney general joined lawsuits backing Trumpâs election challenge. What will it mean for the Republican rising star?
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Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody, pictured with a bipartisan group of state attorneys general outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington in 2019. [ MANUEL BALCE CENETA | AP ]
Updated Jan. 14
Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody has made clear her stance on mixing politics with the job of being the stateâs top legal officer.
Not me, she said.
âIn my term as attorney general, I will never do the bidding of anyone except the people of the state of Florida,â Moody, a former Tampa judge, told Politico after her first year in office.
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Nikki Fried, Manny Diaz condemn Florida AG Ashley Moody’s involvement in group that sent calls asking people to march on Capitol
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Florida’s Republican Attorney General Ashley Moody once served on the board of an organization that sent robocalls asking people to march on the Capitol building last week. Moody is now among many elected officials receiving backlash for supporting rhetoric and rallies that culminated in last week’s domestic terror attack in Washington.
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The call
The call went out the night before. It gave the time and the location. It warned of a stolen election and asked so-called patriots to fight: