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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 ....
About law agencies setting priorities on how they carry out their job. i worked at ice for years when we were deciding not to prosecute. which was a lie, for the entire time i was there. andrew s got a problem in that number one, florida law empowers the governor with a tremendous amount of juice that other governors don t have. and he s also running into the buzz saw of the governor who appears to have national ambitions beyond the state here. but, look, this idea that prosecutors can say i m not going to prosecute a certain thing is nothing new. think about the goy with the joint in his pocket, literally there are very few prosecutors who would take the resource toss do that and spend the resources on the guys with the bricks of cocaine and so on. that s discretion and that s how law enforcement works. tale silly what the governor s done here, ....