Monique Worrell, who was state attorney for the Ninth Judicial Circuit Court in Florida, was removed from office on Wednesday for “dereliction of duty.”

“The state of Florida is a law and order state, and that means we support the men and women who wear the uniform who protect and serve,” DeSantis said at the State Capitol in an announcement of the suspension. “The state of Florida is a law and order state and that means we have strong policies to hold criminals accountable for their misconduct. Prosecutors have a duty to faithfully enforce the law.”

The governor pointed to Worrell’s alleged practice of ignoring minimum sentencing requirements for crimes with guns and drugs.

[DeSantis began this process five months ago. This sprang from the Pine Hills shooting case, which initially had become national news until the perp was identified as a repeat violent offender that Worrell had let off easy the year before. Worrell tried to bluff her way out of the issue by claiming that DeSantis was politicizing the shooting, when Democrats from Joe Biden on down initially pounced (heh) on it to support their gun-control arguments. — Ed]