By announcing the suspension of a state attorney who publicly pledged not to enforce state laws against later-term abortions or sex-change surgeries performed on minors, Florida governor Ron DeSantis confirmed once again that he is the leader of the opposition in Biden’s America.
DeSantis also reminded the world that he’s a very canny politician. He does that about once a month now. Hillsborough County state attorney Andrew Warren had pledged not to prosecute on matters of special privilege to the Left. This tactic of abusing discretion as a form of soft nullification has deep roots in America, but it has been taken up by Democrats fighting the culture war with more and more zest since the Obama years, when the Justice Department said it would simply ignore the Defense of Marriage Act. Florida’s laws on abortion are not nearly as protective of the unborn as those in some deep-red states, but they are broadly popular. So too are the laws against gelding boys, or sterilizing and removing breasts from girls under the Orwellian practice of “gender affirmation surgery.”
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