{"id":2024065,"date":"2023-09-06T21:41:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T01:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/suspended-florida-attorney-monique-worrell-asks-state-supreme-court-to-invalidate-move-by-desantis\/"},"modified":"2023-09-06T21:44:51","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T01:44:51","slug":"suspended-florida-attorney-monique-worrell-asks-state-supreme-court-to-invalidate-move-by-desantis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/suspended-florida-attorney-monique-worrell-asks-state-supreme-court-to-invalidate-move-by-desantis\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida attorney Monique Worrell seeks state Supreme Court&#8217;s intervention to nullify DeSantis&#8217; action."},"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\">26<\/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%2Fsuspended-florida-attorney-monique-worrell-asks-state-supreme-court-to-invalidate-move-by-desantis%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=2024065&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--><h2>Orlando-based State Attorney Monique Worrell\u2062 Challenges Governor DeSantis&#8217;s Suspension<\/h2>\n<p>Orlando-based State Attorney Monique\u2064 Worrell \u2064has \u200dtaken a bold step by filing a complaint against Governor Ron \u200dDeSantis (R-FL) after he moved to \u200dsuspend her last \u200bmonth. The suspension was\u200d based on allegations of &#8220;neglect\u200d of duty and incompetence,&#8221; with DeSantis accusing her of failing to properly prosecute cases. Worrell, however, is\u200d not backing down and has asked the\u2064 Florida Supreme Court to declare the order invalid due to a lack of evidence supporting the governor&#8217;s claims.<\/p>\n<h3>A Call for Clarity and Specificity<\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cInstead, the Order vaguely\u200b refers to Ms.\u2062 Worrell\u2019s\u2064 &#8216;practices and policies&#8217; throughout but notably \u2062fails to identify a single,\u2064 specific \u2063policy or\u200d practice, making the Order distinguishable \u200cfrom recent cases involving other Florida state\u200b attorneys, where the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/suspended-florida-attorney-monique-worrell-asks-state-supreme-court-to-invalidate-move-by-desantis\/\" title=\"Florida attorney Monique Worrell seeks state Supreme Court's intervention to nullify DeSantis' action.\">executive orders identified specific \u2064policies\u2064 alleged<\/a> to constitute a\u200c neglect of\u200c duty,\u201d the 46-page petition\u200b by Worrell\u2019s \u2063attorney states, alluding to \u200danother state \u2064attorney\u200d DeSantis suspended in \u20632022.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Worrell&#8217;s legal\u200b team highlights the lack\u200d of clarity\u2062 in \u200dthe governor&#8217;s order, pointing out\u2062 that it\u200d fails to pinpoint \u2064any specific policies or practices that allegedly\u200c constitute neglect of\u200c duty. This sets it apart from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/north-korea-detains-us-citizen-who-entered-country-from-south-korea\/\" title=\"US citizen detained by North Korea after crossing from South Korea.\">previous cases involving<\/a> other state attorneys, where specific policies were identified. The petition emphasizes the\u200b need for\u200c evidence to support\u2064 the allegations made against Worrell.<\/p>\n<h3>Challenging the Narrative<\/h3>\n<p>As a Democrat elected in 2020 as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-student-loan-forgiveness-education-department-reveals-which-states-have-the-most-borrowers\/\" title=\"Education Department reveals states with highest number of student loan borrowers for Biden's loan forgiveness plan.\">state\u200c attorney<\/a> in the\u200b 9th Judicial Circuit in Orange \u2064and Osceola counties,\u2062 Worrell has faced criticism for being perceived as too lenient on crime. However,\u200c her lawyers argue\u2062 that there\u200b is no factual basis to prove\u2062 that her policies have resulted in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-real-story-of-whats-happening-with-crime-in-new-york\/\" title=\"The Real Story of What's Happening With Crime in New York\">lower incarceration rates<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cSuch data, even if accurate, reflects a \u200dhost of\u2063 factors unrelated to the \u200dpractices or policies of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nevada-trump-campaign-says-clark-county-registrar-joe-gloria-hiding-from-subpoena-service\/\" title=\"Nevada: Trump Campaign Says Clark County Registrar Joe Gloria Hiding From Subpoena Service\">state attorney<\/a> and thus cannot \u2064be relied on to demonstrate that Ms. Worrell\u200c has practices or policies that result in lower incarceration \u200brates,\u201d the court\u200d filing reads. \u201cMoreover, \u200bbecause there is no duty for a\u2063 state attorney to maximize incarceration rates, lower \u2063than average incarceration rates\u2064 are\u2062 no evidence of neglect of duty \u200cor\u200c incompetence.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Worrell&#8217;s legal\u200c team challenges the notion that lower\u200c incarceration rates \u200dautomatically indicate neglect of duty or incompetence.\u2063 They argue\u2064 that such data is influenced by \u200cvarious\u200c factors \u200bunrelated to the state attorney&#8217;s \u200cpractices or policies.\u2063 Furthermore, they emphasize\u200c that \u200cit is not \u200dthe duty of a state \u2062attorney to maximize incarceration rates.<\/p>\n<h3>A Call for Reinstatement<\/h3>\n<p>Attorneys and lawmakers at the Orange County Courthouse have\u2062 rallied\u2064 behind Worrell, calling for her reinstatement and \u200cquestioning the \u2063constitutionality\u200b of DeSantis&#8217;s \u200corder. They argue that \u200bthe governor&#8217;s allegations are vague and lack \u2062specificity.<\/p>\n<p>When\u2063 Governor DeSantis announced \u200cWorrell&#8217;s suspension in a 15-page\u200c executive order, he\u200c stated that\u200c there was a\u200d &#8220;duty to act to\u200d protect the public from\u200b this dereliction of duty.&#8221; It \u200bis worth noting that this\u200c suspension comes over \u2062a year after\u2064 DeSantis ousted Hillsborough\u200b County State Attorney\u2063 Andrew \u200bWarren, a Democrat, on similar\u200d grounds. Warren\u200b is still fighting in court after\u200b appealing\u200b DeSantis&#8217;s decision.<\/p>\n<p>The \u200dWashington Examiner has reached\u200d out to Governor \u200cDeSantis&#8217;s office for \u200dcomment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">CLICK HERE TO \u200bREAD MORE FROM THE \u2062WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State Attorney Monique Worrell of Orlando filed a complaint against Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) for suspending her, citing &#8220;neglect of duty and incompetence.&#8221; Worrell argues that the order lacks evidence and requested the Florida Supreme Court to declare it invalid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2024066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2024065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024065","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2024065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2024066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2024065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2024065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2024065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}