What to expect as Warren v. DeSantis heads to trial today in Tallahassee

[Zorro]

Hillsborough’s ousted state attorney gets his day in court Tuesday against the governor who removed him from office.

Lawyers will square off this morning in a Tallahassee courtroom for a politically charged trial that’s expected to center on one question:

What was Gov. Ron DeSantis’s motive for yanking Andrew Warren from office?

In a surprise move in August that made national headlines, Warren, Hillsborough County’s twice-elected state attorney, was suspended from his duties and escorted out of his office by a sheriff’s deputy. It happened as DeSantis held a rally-style news conference at the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office at which he and others lamented aspects of Warren’s progressive approach to criminal justice.

Warren is asking a federal judge to reinstate him. He says the suspension was political retaliation against his right to free speech. DeSantis says he did it because Warren refused to enforce state laws.

“As I’ve said from the beginning, there’s so much more at stake than my job,” Warren said Tuesday morning. “We’re not just fighting for me to do the job that I was elected to do. We’re fighting for the rights of voters across Florida, to have the elected officials of their choice. We’re fighting for free speech, for the integrity of our elections, the very values of our democracy.”

https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida/2022/11/29/ron-desantis-andrew-warren-state-attorney-florida-trial/

This could get interesting, but I suspect DeSantis will prevail.

[Walleye]

1. DeSantis will shit all over the chessboard, knock over the pieces, strut around like he won