(Robert Jonathan, Headline USA) Invoking his authority under the Florida constitution, Gov. Ron DeSantis has immediately suspended without pay a prosecutor for what his executive order describes as “neglect of duty” and “incompetence.”
At a press conference Wednesday announcing the decision, DeSantis deemed Florida “a law-and- order state” and asserted that “refusing to faithfully enforce the laws of Florida puts our communities in danger and victimizes innocent Floridians.”
That’s why Orlando-area State Attorney Monique Worrell, who reportedly received approximately $1 million in 2020 campaign contributions from a political action committee set up by far-left billionaire oligarch George Soros, is out of a job, at least temporarily.
Soros-funded, soft-on-crime prosecutors far more interested in implementing social justice than criminal justice have presided over a wave of lawlessness in jurisdictions across the country.
“Worrell’s practices and policies have too often allowed violent criminals to escape the full consequences of their criminal conduct, thereby endangering the innocent civilians of Orange and Osceola counties,” an accompanying DeSantis press release explained about the executive action.
DeSantis’ 40-page executive order, including about 25 pages of supporting exhibits, indicates Worrell’s alleged failures to carry out the responsibilities of her office, especially when it involves gun crime, narcotics violations and child porn.
“Worrell has authorized or allowed practices or policies that have systematically permitted . violent offenders, drug traffickers, serious-juvenile offenders, and pedophiles to evade incarceration, when otherwise warranted under Florida law,” the order summarized.
Worrell’s way of doing things allegedly was to avoid filing charges or dropping charges against suspects, even with strong evidence in hand, and trying to circumvent mandatory minimum sentencing requirements, “or other sentencing enhancements, especially for offenders under the age of 25, except in the most extreme cases,” according to the DeSantis document.
“The people of Central Florida deserve to have a State Attorney who will seek justice in accordance with the law instead of allowing violent criminals to roam the streets and find new victims,” DeSantis, who is a 2024 GOP candidate for president, also said.
The governor named Judge Andrew Bain to assume Worrell’s duties as chief prosecutor in the state’s 9th Judicial district for the duration for the suspension.
Worrell is the second radical Democrat prosecutor that DeSantis has found wanting.
Last year, the governor removed Andrew Warren, a Tampa-area State Attorney who had vowed that he would not enforce Florida’s abortion restrictions or restrictions on transgender surgery for minors.
In June, the Florida Supreme Court upheld DeSantis’s action.
According to NBC News, “Both Warren’s and Worrell’s 2020 campaigns received help from a committee that got money from Democratic megadonor George Soros.”
