• BrooklynMan@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    yeah, this isn’t just some promise to “look into it”. he’s been indicted on some extremely serious federal charges… something IS finally happening. AT FUCKING LAST. Also, the DOJ will likely be prosecuted in the South Florida District, which means it wall all transpire in Trump’s back yard. He’ll hate that.

    This may finally be what we’ve all been waiting for.

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        1 year ago

        Not a lawyer, but this is happening in federal court in Florida.

        If it happened in state court in Florida, then supposedly the executive branch (which the governor leads) is not allowed to interfere, but it’s the same government of people who might know each other, so it’s possibly murkier.

        But since it’s federal court, I believe if the state government started doing anything, it would be trivial for that federal circuit to consider it problematic and just move it to another state. So with that, I believe no, DeSantis couldn’t do anything even if he wanted to.

        That, and they are now political rivals competing for the Republican nomination, so I doubt DeSantis minds much of what’s going on with this anyway.