Roe vs. Wade<\/em> via the Dobbs decision last summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\nSince announcing his presidential bid earlier this year, Gov. DeSantis has deliberately chosen to stake his Oval Office ambitions on being farther to the right of even Donald Trump on \u201cculture war\u201d issues. To be clear, that means that DeSantis is seeking to \u201cout-bigot\u201d Trump, arguably the most outwardly bigoted president that America has had since Woodrow Wilson a little over a century ago!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Whether it has been Desantis\u2019 ill advised and unwinnable war against the Disney Corporation\u2014Florida\u2019s most prominent private employer\u2014for its refusal to back down on criticizing his homophobic agenda, or his doubling down on refusing to teach real Black historical facts, DeSantis, trailing Trump by nearly 40 percentage points, is too tone deaf to hear that even among Republican Primary voters, the majority DO NOT CARE about his \u201canti-woke\u201d agenda. As Donald Trump, of all people, pointed out several weeks ago, DeSantis \u201ccan’t even define woke\u201d\u2014and is making a fool out of himself as his campaign has struck ice and is going down faster than the Titanic!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Thinking himself clever, DeSantis tapped Orange County Judge Andrew Bain, a former star football player at the University of Miami and graduate of the Florida A&M University College of Law, as Worrell’s replacement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What you must know is that Judge Bain is a member of the Federalist Society, a hard core conservative group that has backed recent Supreme Court judicial nominees Brett Kavanaugh, Neil Gorsuch, and Amy Coney Barrett, among others. Meaning, Judge Bain is cut from the same ideological cloth as DeSantis, a fact that now allows the governor to say, \u201csee, how can I be called a racist if I appointed a Black replacement prosecutor?\u201d But the simple reality is that State Attorney Worrell, elected with better than 67% of the vote, has been replaced with someone who will do the governor’s ideological bidding!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Over two decades ago, I served as an assistant state attorney in Tallahassee and I can attest that one of the best aspects of the job was the ability to use my own judgment in determining just outcomes in thousands of cases. Because of that, I cannot imagine the frustration that State Attorneys Worrell, Warren, and Ayala must have felt in knowing that a sitting governor, playing politics, was there lurking and waiting to usurp their authority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Similarly, as one who tried countless murder cases across Florida after I left the State Attorney\u2019s office, including multiple capital murder cases where the death penalty was sought, I can attest that the principal purpose of the death penalty, which is to deter future murders and murderers, simply DOES NOT work; even a cursory glance at the local news each night shows that folks are being killed every single day in cities and towns across Florida. Thus, who can blame elected state attorneys for seeking ways to address crime in Florida as the old ways surely have not lessened crime rates one bit?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now, if you are wondering \u201cwhat can be done,\u201d I remind my readers now, as I always do during election season, to get out and VOTE! Yes, presidential and gubernatorial races are important, but local prosecutor races are critically important, too! If you do not know the name of your local district, state, or state\u2019s attorney, find out who they are and if you’re living in a red state with a blue prosecutor in your district or circuit, be prepared to write letters to the federal or state level appellate courts in support of the person you helped elect should they find themselves compromised by some ambitious (if not mischievous) Republican governor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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