Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost jumps into Florida abortion fight

[RandySF]

Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost and 14 other attorneys general are arguing in federal court that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was within his powers when he removed a local prosecutor who had spoken out against the state’s restrictive new abortion law.

But the group that represents Ohio’s local prosecutors doesn’t seem comfortable with that claim, expressing worries that the Florida case threatens the principle of “prosecutorial discretion” — that faced with many possible crimes and limited time and resources, prosecutors need great latitude to decide which cases are most wisely brought.

Yost said his friend-of-the-court brief doesn’t violate that principle. He said that he doesn’t want to impinge on prosecutors’ decisions about individual cases, but only to allow for their removal when they make blanket statements that they won’t enforce laws they don’t agree with.

“This case is about a ‘prosecutor’s veto’ — the nullification of a democratically passed law by the act of an executive,” Yost said in an email Thursday. “The application of discretion to a single case is proper; the application of discretion to every case arising under a statute eliminates the legislative act itself, the core function of a democratically elected government.”



https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2023/04/24/ohio-attorney-general-dave-yost-jumps-into-florida-abortion-fight/

[Phoenix61]

1. Except there wasn't an actual case he refused to prosecute. nt

[Botany]

3. I hope the women in OH remember what the republicans have done to them.

Christo Fascist shits. Freedom of religion also means freedom from religion too.

[Sky Jewels]

4. Yes. It's been sad watching my

birth state spiral downward over the past couple decades. You'd think at some point enough people there would pull their heads out of their asses. Ohio has a lot of small/medium cities and it shouldn't be this red.