{"id":1589051,"date":"2022-08-04T12:50:16","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T16:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1589051"},"modified":"2022-08-04T12:50:18","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T16:50:18","slug":"florida-governor-suspends-state-prosecutor-who-vowed-not-to-enforce-the-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/florida-governor-suspends-state-prosecutor-who-vowed-not-to-enforce-the-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Governor Suspends State Prosecutor Who Vowed Not to Enforce the Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fflorida-governor-suspends-state-prosecutor-who-vowed-not-to-enforce-the-law%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1589051&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-florida\">Florida<\/a>\u2019s governor on Aug. 4 suspended a state prosecutor who has vowed not to enforce laws related to abortion.<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Ron DeSantis suspended\u00a0State Attorney Andrew Warren of the 13th Judicial Circuit due to \u201cneglect of duty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the order (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flgov.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Executive-Order-22-176.pdf\">pdf<\/a>) outlining the move, DeSantis cites Warren recently declaring he would not enforce laws that largely prohibit late-term abortions.<\/p>\n<p>Warren and other prosecutors signed a document in June that said \u201cenforcing abortion bans runs counter to the obligations and interests we are sworn to uphold.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe decline to use our offices\u2019 resources to criminalize reproductive health decisions and commit to exercise our well-settled discretion and refrain from prosecuting those who \u2026 provide, or support abortions,\u201d the prosecutors stated.<\/p>\n<p>No other state attorneys in Florida signed the document.<\/p>\n<p>One Florida law bars doctors from performing abortions during the third trimester, or after a fetus achieves viability. Another law bars abortions, with exceptions, after a fetus reaches 15 weeks of age.<\/p>\n<p>Warren \u201chas put himself publicly above the law,\u201d DeSantis, a Republican, told reporters during a press conference.<\/p>\n<p>Warren\u2019s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p> Policies and Other Statements <\/p>\n<p>The order also cites how Warren\u2019s office has avoided prosecuting people who commit misdemeanors such as resisting arrest without violence, stating that the policies are not \u201ca proper exercise of prosecutorial discretion\u201d and also usurp the authority of the Florida legislature by not enforcing the law.<\/p>\n<p>And the order notes that Warren in 2021 signed a separate statement with other prosecutors regarding biological males using female bathrooms and vice versa.<\/p>\n<p>The prosecutors pledged to \u201cnot promote the criminalization of gender-affirming healthcare or transgender people.\u201d \u201cGender-affirming\u201d is a term used to describe sex change operations and other procedures meant to facilitate a person\u2019s change from male to female or female to male.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida\u2019s governor on Aug. 4 suspended a state prosecutor who has vowed not to enforce laws related to abortion. Gov. Ron DeSantis suspended\u00a0State Attorney Andrew Warren of the 13th Judicial Circuit due to \u201cneglect of duty.\u201d In the order (pdf) outlining the move, DeSantis cites Warren recently declaring he would not enforce laws that largely [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1589051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1589051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1589051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1589051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1589051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}