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Florida governor removes elected opposition official, replaces with political ally
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You don't need the quotation marks.
I agree with what you mean, but they do need them as the easiest defense against a slander suit.
I'd argue in court that he's a fascist tyrant. The precedent will be useful.
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A black, democrat, elected official.
No agenda here.
How the frick is this legal?
From a CNN article:
The Florida constitution allows a governor to remove an elected official for “malfeasance, misfeasance, neglect of duty, habitual drunkenness, incompetence, or permanent inability to perform official duties.” No previous Florida executive has interpreted that power as broadly as DeSantis. The state Senate can reinstate Worrell, but the chamber is controlled by Republicans closely aligned with DeSantis and have rarely stood in his way.
Warren’s attempts at reinstatement have failed. A federal judge ruled DeSantis had acted unconstitutionally in suspending Warren, writing that there was “not a hint of misconduct by Mr. Warren” in the trial record, but he ultimately dismissed the case saying he did not have the power to intervene on a state matter. The state Supreme Court tossed Warren’s lawsuit in state court earlier this summer.
Monique Worrell was the attorney recently dismissed and Andrew Warren is the one who was dismissed last year.
Things like this always make me wonder if a state could legally turn into a dictatorship.
Could Florida legally change it's constitution to say "All governing power rests entirely in Ron DeSantis" and dissolve it's representative bodies? Obviously it would still be beholden to voters for national elections (representatives and senators), but statewide there could be nothing.
Technically, no. The Constitution says "the United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government," but "republican" has historically been very loosely interpreted. Technically, China and North Korea are both republics.
They're not technically republics, they're nominally republics.
Well part of the problem is that there isn't total agreement on what a republic is. By some definitions it's basically anything that isn't a monarchy. Some medieval republics didn't have elections and instead chose their officials by sortition, which is essentially a lottery. China and North Korea do have elections, but they're total shams (and North Korea is basically a monarchy is a thin coat of republican paint, since by law they can't have any leader that isn't descended from Kim Il Sung).
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Possibly. The problem is that the founders decided to bake in armed revolt as a safe guard instead if, you know, reasonable solutions.
The state Supreme Court tossed Warren’s lawsuit in state court earlier this summer.
Why the fuck? You know, besides the fascism...
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More importantly, who is going to stop them?
It's not...but unless someone actually stands up to him, it's just another crime our politicians get away with.
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DeSantis, who is also running for president, says he is suspending Florida State Attorney Monique Worrell "for neglecting her duty to faithfully prosecute crime in her jurisdiction."
Meatball Ron has barely stepped foot in Florida since he announced his campaign. Shouldn't he remove himself for "negelcting his duty"?
Yeah why did he even run for that job just to immediately turn around and run for another? How is that ok?
There's a law in Florida that you have to resign as governor if you want to run for president. But the republican state congress changed it just for Desantis. The state republican party is completely crooked.
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Florida: Where Fascism Goes to Flourish.
Watch a dem do the same and have every maga POS tripping over themselves to call them out.
Dems have to start fighting fire with fire.
That's a problem when you have one group trying to do what is remotely morally right and another who doesn't care and wants to "win" at any cost.
It's also a problem when a group has most of the guns and is stupid enough to use them without thought for the consequences. Moreso when the authorities responsible for enforcing those consequences tend to be in agreement if not allegiance with the group in question.
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When they go low, kick
They've gone through all the effort of putting their teeth closer to your boots, it'd be inconsiderate to not let them meet.
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I feel like im never goin to disney world at this rate
Absolutely not, not if it’s like this, I’ll just go to the one in California instead
You're not missing anything, WDW hasn't been worth the price of admission since 2019. This from a former WDW Employee.
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i really want to go to kennedy sc but not with all this crap happening in florida.
I wanted to live in florida. I love the weather. It's been my dream to move there and now that the kids are grown up and I have the means to move there, I don't want anything to do with that state in its current form. It really sucks.
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I've never been and will probably never go. We'll just settle with the other one in CA.
Same for me. I grew up in Florida and lived there for decades. I haven’t been back since 2018 and I don’t know if I ever will, which is a kind of sad feeling tbh.
I have to go to a wedding at WDW next year and I hate that I do.
It’s about time we start thinking about the plan where he is removed by a “candidate” who has nothing to live for
At this rate, he can handpick the Secretary of State who can rig the governor vote in his favor and he will never lose any election
Like in Georgia where the secretary of state didn't recuse themselves from the responsibility of managing the election then ran for governor. Cities get hours long waits and rural areas have no problems. Also sending voting machine to black districts without power cords.
That is exactly what the fuck I was referring to Brian goddamn Kemp
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This is what fascism looks like folks.
This is what the Republicans want, to concentrate power in the hands of the executive so they had ignore the people
This shouldn't happen in America. And the guy who did it shouldn't be allowed anywhere near the White House," said David Rothkopf, a noted foreign policy, national security and political affairs expert and commentator.
I agree that this shouldn't be happening, but it is. It's a clear indication of the GOP wanting to operate as a fascist party, and this needs to be taken seriously. I hope that happens.
Florida is the capital of the New Confederacy that liters nobody wants. If you just stop giving money to the crooked catholic shitcunt church and the evangelical shitcunt church then we probably wouldn’t have this problem.
The state has 56 white supremacy groups. What do you think goes on down there?
Was there even anything for him to backup removing her other than "for neglecting her duty to faithfully prosecute crime in her jurisdiction"? Sounds pretty fascist to me but that is the Republican dream isn't it?
Now imagine all of America if he actually got elected POTUS in 2024.
Fortunately he is failing hard.
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