Florida has seen various governors remove elected officials who haven’t been criminally charged including the controversial, high-profile suspensions of two successive Broward supervisors of elections. Here are the highest-profile such suspensions in the past two decades.
Gov. Ron DeSantis has pursued an expansive view of his executive authority, ordering high-profile removals of local elected officials who haven’t been charged with crimes. Governors routinely have used their power under the Florida Constitution to suspend elected officials from office – when they’ve been charged with crimes. Though there is precedent for the DeSantis approach of removing elected officials who haven’t been criminally charged, it had been highly unusual. A review of state records shows a change when DeSantis took office in January 2019.