San Francisco has already fired its soft-on-crime prosecutor, Chesa Boudin, and an analogous effort is shifting in opposition to Los Angeles’s George Gascon. On the opposite aspect of the nation, Florida voters don’t have an analogous historical past of recourse to recollects. However they do have Gov. Ron DeSantis. On Thursday he used his constitutional powers to droop Tampa Bay prosecutor Andrew Warren.
What’s making the headlines is Mr. Warren’s stance on abortion and transgender points. Mr. DeSantis’s order cites a June letter Mr. Warren signed, together with Mr. Boudin and Mr. Gascon, wherein they and different prosecutors promised to “decline to make use of our workplaces’ sources to criminalize reproductive well being selections.” The letter continues: “Our legislatures could resolve to criminalize private healthcare selections, however we stay obligated to prosecute solely these case that serve the pursuits of justice.”
