{"id":105120,"date":"2022-11-30T16:54:34","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T16:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=105120"},"modified":"2022-11-30T16:54:36","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T16:54:36","slug":"fl-official-suspended-by-gov-desantis-for-political-reasons-gets-his-day-in-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=105120","title":{"rendered":"FL Official Suspended by Gov. DeSantis for Political Reasons Gets His Day in Court"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/florida-playbook\/2022\/11\/29\/warren-v-desantis-showdown-starts-in-federal-court-00071068\" target=\"_blank\">Politico<\/a>: &#8220;<strong>Flashback\u2014<\/strong>\u00a0DeSantis suspended Warren for a handful of reasons, including a pledge the elected prosecutor made to not enforce certain laws, such as the state\u2019s recently enacted ban on abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy without exceptions for rape or incest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Framework \u2014<\/strong>&nbsp;During a trial that could last anywhere from three to five days, Warren\u2019s legal team will argue that DeSantis\u2019 move violated Warren\u2019s First Amendment rights and was done for purely political reasons. DeSantis, who is being represented by the state\u2019s solicitor general and other lawyers working for Attorney General Ashley Moody, have countered that Warren\u2019s \u201cblanket refusals\u201d to enforce laws were sufficient grounds for the governor to act and that Warren\u2019s speech was not protected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Coming up\u2014<\/strong>\u00a0The trial is expected to feature up to 14 witnesses, including Warren himself, although some of the testimony will be offered through depositions and not on the witness stand. The case has already provided an inside look at how top aides to the governor \u2014 including his \u201cpublic safety czar\u201d Larry Keefe \u2014 pursued the case against Warren. Details so far have also made it clear that Warren\u2019s decision to sign onto a statement regarding abortion was the main catalyst that sparked the decision to suspend him.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politico: &#8220;Flashback\u2014\u00a0DeSantis suspended Warren for a handful of reasons, including a pledge the elected prosecutor made to not enforce certain laws, such as the state\u2019s recently enacted ban on abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy without exceptions for rape or incest. Framework \u2014&nbsp;During a trial that could last anywhere from three to five days, Warren\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105121,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105120\/revisions\/105121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}