15 States Side With DeSantis in Battle Over Right to Oust Prosecutors

A coalition of 15 attorneys general is urging a federal appeals court “to affirm states’ authority” to remove local prosecutors who, motivated by leftist ideology, refuse to enforce laws.
“Prosecutors have no right to exercise a veto over an entire law,” Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost said in a news release. “But some are acting as though they do—and they are breaking our system of government. The political preferences of a single prosecutor cannot be allowed to override a lawfully enacted statute.”
Yost and 14 of his peers align with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in a lawsuit that an ex-prosecutor filed after DeSantis ousted him from office in 2022. Andrew Warren, who served as the state’s attorney in Hillsborough County, had promised no prosecutions of abortionists for alleged violations of Florida law….}