Pro-Crime, Soros-Backed District Attorneys Need to Go—Here’s How Florida Is Streamlining Their Exit
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The votes are in and the news is good: Despite significantly outspending her opponent, Virginia voters have just made Buta Biberaj of Loudoun County the next George Soros-backed district attorney to be booted from office.
The controversial attorney was one of the many district attorneys across the country funded by the leftist billionaire in a bid to overhaul criminal justice for the worse. And her record was a problem: Similar to other Soros district attorneys, she failed to prosecute several serious crimes, and she gained notoriety for prosecuting the father of a girl whose sexual assault in a school bathroom was covered up by the Loudoun County School Board.
Soros’s district attorneys have a reputation for abusing prosecutorial discretion, letting criminals walk free, and prosecuting for political purposes.Despite pouring $40 million into various district attorneys’ races across the nation over the last decade, many rogue prosecutors aren’t as politically safe as they once were. A new report from the Foundation for Government Accountability highlights how Florida is restoring law and order by holding rogue prosecutors accountable.
Rogue prosecutors abuse their power to usher in an era of lawlessness.
In Chicago, Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx routinely dropped charges against felony defendants and oversaw a dramatic rise in homicides—an average of 165 more homicides per year—before announcing her exit from the post as top prosecutor.
Before resigning, Soros-backed District Attorney Kim Gardner made a name for herself by failing to prosecute criminals in St. Louis. She was also once disqualified from a case for being politically motivated.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg publicly announced his plans to let charges for traffic infractions and prostitution, among other things, slip by the wayside. His office is now busy prosecuting former President Donald Trump.
Voters don’t want the progressive, soft-on-crime policies peddled by Soros and his allies.
More than a dozen Soros-backed prosecutors have moved on to greener pastures after voters began experiencing the disastrous implications of their policies, and many others are feeling the pressure rise.
Ultimately, voters hold elected district attorneys accountable at the polls, but in extreme cases of neglect, states should exercise executive authority to act in communities’ best interest. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has done just that, suspending two such state attorneys (as they are called in Florida) for failing to perform their duties.
Florida’s law allows the governor to hold rogue prosecutors accountable.
Florida’s law allows a governor to suspend state attorneys who neglect their duties or are incompetent. Governor DeSantis suspended Andrew Warren in August 2022 and Monique Worrell in August 2023.
In both cases, Warren and Worrell used their prosecutorial authority to go soft on crime. Warren established a “presumption of non-prosecution” for certain crimes, including disorderly intoxication and prostitution. And Worrell habitually dismissed juvenile felony cases and failed to deliver minimum mandatory sentencing. According to the report, the Osceola County Sheriff’s Office referred 58 non-homicide robbery with a firearm cases to Worrell’s Ninth Circuit in 2021 and 2022, but just one of those cases resulted in a minimum mandatory sentence.
The suspension of rogue prosecutors restores law and order.
Following the suspension of a rogue prosecutor, Florida law includes a mechanism to fill the gap left behind them. The governor may assign another state attorney to fill the role or take on cases, ensuring that the wheels of justice keep turning and criminals don’t run free.
Florida has also banned “sanctuary cities,” strongholds of criminal activity.
While rogue prosecutors wield their power to selectively apply the hands of justice, sanctuary cities give a pass to entire communities by defying immigration law. In sanctuary cities, local law enforcement officials are hamstrung in their ability to hold people who immigrated illegally and work with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to promote public safety.
Florida’s actions to ban sanctuary cities and rein in rogue prosecutors sends a clear message that Sunshine State will continue to uphold law and order. States waiting for their own rogue prosecutors to get the boot may want to consider Florida’s expedited path for restoring the peace.
