{"id":1591082,"date":"2022-08-05T13:05:15","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T17:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1591082"},"modified":"2022-08-05T13:05:17","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T17:05:17","slug":"florida-prosecutor-suspended-by-desantis-defiant-says-hell-keep-serving-in-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/florida-prosecutor-suspended-by-desantis-defiant-says-hell-keep-serving-in-position\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Prosecutor Suspended by DeSantis Defiant, Says He\u2019ll Keep Serving in Position"},"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-prosecutor-suspended-by-desantis-defiant-says-hell-keep-serving-in-position%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=1591082&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>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-florida\">Florida<\/a> prosecutor suspended by Gov. Ron DeSantis on Aug. 4 was defiant in his first remarks since the move, vowing to continue serving in his position despite the suspension.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m still doing this job, the state attorney \u2026 and the governor signing something with a pen or crayon doesn\u2019t change that,\u201d Andrew Warren told reporters during a press conference.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis, a Republican, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/florida-governor-suspends-state-prosecutor-who-vowed-not-to-enforce-the-law_4643576.html\">suspended Warren<\/a>, the state attorney for the 13th Judicial Circuit, hours earlier, citing how Warren has vowed not to enforce laws regarding abortion and hypothetical laws regarding sex change operations.<\/p>\n<p>In his order, DeSantis requested the Hillsborough County Sheriff\u2019s Office to \u201cassist in the immediate transition\u201d of Warren from the office and to ensure Warren and his staffers removed no files or other documents.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not clear if the request was fulfilled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know the details of how that happened, if it did,\u201d a spokesperson for the office told The Epoch Times.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson asked for emailed questions. When emailed, the spokesperson declined to comment, instead pointing to how Sheriff\u00a0Chad Chronister appeared with DeSantis at the briefing announcing the suspension and supported the move.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for DeSantis and the Office of the State Attorney for the 13th Judicial Circuit did not return requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis ordered Warren replaced by Susan Lopez, a judge in the circuit.\u00a0The prosecutor\u2019s office on Thursday began listing Lopez as the state attorney, and published a picture of her being sworn in.<\/p>\n<p>The Florida Senate can make the suspension permanent or overturn it, per the state\u2019s Constitution.<\/p>\n<p> Abortion Ban <\/p>\n<p>After the suspension was ordered, Warren held a press conference announcing charges in a cold case and said he would not be abiding by the suspension.<\/p>\n<p>Later in the day, he appeared on CNN and reiterated that he would keep doing his<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Florida prosecutor suspended by Gov. Ron DeSantis on Aug. 4 was defiant in his first remarks since the move, vowing to continue serving in his position despite the suspension. \u201cI\u2019m still doing this job, the state attorney \u2026 and the governor signing something with a pen or crayon doesn\u2019t change that,\u201d Andrew Warren told [\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-1591082","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\/1591082","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=1591082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591082\/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=1591082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1591082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1591082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}