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‘A victory for the truth’: Judge refuses to throw out suspended prosecutor’s Ron DeSantis lawsuit
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‘A victory for the truth’: Judge refuses to throw out suspended prosecutor’s Ron DeSantis lawsuit
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MSNBC’s Joy Reid has commented that with all the victories Republicans have enjoyed in Florida in recent years, it’s questionable that Florida even qualifies as a swing state anymore. In Florida, Republicans control the governor’s mansion, two U.S. Senate seats and the state legislature. And The Lincoln Project’s Rick Wilson, a Never Trump conservative who supported President Joe Biden in the 2020 election, has described Florida as state in which Democrats “struggle.”
Nonetheless, Florida has a large, highly vocal Democratic opposition, and one of the Florida Democrats who has aggressively stood up to the far-right Gov. Ron DeSantis is Andrew Warren — a Hillsborough County prosecutor who DeSantis removed on August 4. DeSantis was obviously determined to punish Warren for declaring that he will not enforce an abortion ban in Florida or prosecute those who provide gender transition treatment for youths. Now, Warren is suing DeSantis.
On Monday, September 19, Judge Robert Hinkle, according to The Guardian, made two decisions affecting Warren. Hinkle denied DeSantis’ motion to dismiss Warren’s lawsuit, but he also denied a motion from Warren asking that he be reinstated as Hillsborough County prosecutor immediately. Although Warren’s suspension remains, Hinkle ruled that his lawsuit against DeSantis can go forward — and Hinkle wants to see Warren and DeSantis address their differences in court in the weeks ahead.
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Warren discussed Hinkle’s verdict with The Guardian, saying, “The governor now has to answer it to a court of law where facts matter and where you have to tell the truth. It’s a victory for the truth. A federal judge has ruled that the governor has to come into court to explain the reasons behind my suspension, to show that it wasn’t political, to show that it wasn’t in violation of my free speech rights, to show that it wasn’t in violation of the voters’ rights to have the state attorney of their choice.”
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