Orlando, FL – Governor DeSantis announced a suspension of Hillsborough County’s duly elected State Attorney, Andrew Warren. Here is Representative Anna V. Eskamani’s statement in response:
“This is a gross political attack on a duly elected State Attorney who has publicly stated that he would not follow along with Governor Ron DeSantis’ extreme anti-abortion and anti-LGBTQ+ agenda. Every prosecutor in the State of Florida uses their discretion in handling cases and Warren was operating fully within the appropriate discretion of his office and if the people of Hillsborough County don’t like what he is doing then they would have voted him out.
It’s also important to stress that there are currently no laws in Florida punishing pregnant people or trans parents, so what the Governor said today during his announcement is sensational and inaccurate. But good to know that DeSantis thinks women should be arrested for ending their own pregnancies — that’s an important point for the voters to know too.
Finally: To people talking about “law and order” — it’s the DeSantis Administration who has told local school districts to ignore Federal Title IX guidelines and he demanded that the legislature ignore the Voting Rights Act during Redistricting.
This is not about “law and order” — this is about control.”
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