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The Guardian - US
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Richard Luscombe

DeSantis to face trial for suspension of prosecutor who defied abortion ban law

Hillsborough county state attorney Andrew Warren talks to the media after being suspended by Florida governor Ron DeSantis in Tampa, on 4 August.
The Hillsborough county state attorney, Andrew Warren, talks to the media after being suspended by Florida governor Ron DeSantis in Tampa, on 4 August. Photograph: Octavio Jones/Reuters

A Florida prosecutor suspended by Ron DeSantis for defying a new 15-week abortion law says a federal judge’s decision to send his reinstatement appeal to trial means a reckoning is coming for the state’s Republican governor.

Andrew Warren, a Democrat, was removed as Hillsborough county state attorney on 4 August after saying he would not enforce the abortion ban or prosecute providers of gender transition treatment for young people.

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