Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has suspended a “woke” prosecutor who announced he will not enforce certain laws with which he disagrees. I’ll explain in my next essay why DeSantis’s action is so important. This essay explains what DeSantis did and a political lesson from how he did it.
The Factual Background
The Florida state court system is divided geographically into circuits. Each circuit has an elected “state attorney” who prosecutes criminal cases in that circuit. The job is comparable to that of the district attorney in some other states.
Rob Natelson
Author
Robert G. Natelson, a former constitutional law professor who is senior fellow in constitutional jurisprudence at the Independence Institute in Denver, authored “The Original Constitution” (4th ed., 2025). He is a contributor to the Heritage Foundation’s “Heritage Guide to the Constitution.”
