Republican Gov. Brian Kemp of Georgia signed legislation Friday that will create an oversight commission with the power to remove local prosecutors and district attorneys from their jobs. The measure has been heavily criticized by Democrats, including an Atlanta-area DA, who is seriously weighing charges in connection with former President Donald Trump’s actions in Georgia during the 2020 election.

Prior to the signing, Kemp’s office said that the measure, known as SB 92, would create “an oversight mechanism for district attorneys and solicitors-general across Georgia to ensure accountability in upholding constitution and statutory duties.”

“As hardworking law enforcement officers routinely put their lives on the line to investigate, confront, and arrest criminal offenders, I won’t stand idly by as they’re met with resistance from rogue or incompetent prosecutors who refuse to uphold the law,” Kemp said in a press release after signing the bill. He added that the creation of the commission “will help hold prosecutors driven by out-of-touch politics than commitment to their responsibilities accountable and make our communities safer.”

[Smart step in the right direction for Kemp and the Georgia legislature. If local DAs won’t prosecute crimes, or if they pledge to only enforce laws they personally endorse, the state now has a way to hold them accountable for dereliction of duty, just as DeSantis has done in Florida and now Missouri AG Andrew Bailey has done with St. Louis prosecutor Kim Gardner. If progressives want to waste millions of dollar on activists posing as prosecutors, that’s fine, but it doesn’t mean the rest of the community has to be their hostages. — Ed]