FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis has pursued an expansive view of his executive authority, ordering high-profile removals of local elected officials who haven’t been charged with crimes.
Governors routinely have used their power under the Florida Constitution to suspend elected officials from office — when they’ve been charged with crimes.
Though there is precedent for the DeSantis approach of removing elected officials who haven’t been criminally charged — including controversial, high-profile suspensions of two successive Broward supervisors of elections — it had been highly unusual.
