{"id":1167542,"date":"2023-08-02T14:40:12","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T14:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/production.public.theintercept.cloud\/?p=440279"},"modified":"2023-08-02T14:40:12","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T14:40:12","slug":"reformist-das-sue-georgia-over-law-to-remove-elected-prosecutors-including-one-probing-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/08\/02\/reformist-das-sue-georgia-over-law-to-remove-elected-prosecutors-including-one-probing-donald-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Reformist DAs Sue Georgia Over Law to Remove Elected Prosecutors \u2014 Including One Probing Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"
Four elected prosecutors<\/u> filed suit against the state of Georgia on Wednesday to stop a new law that gives appointees of the state\u2019s Republican governor the power to remove elected district attorneys from office. Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed the bill into law in May.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a trend that we\u2019re seeing across the country of state governments that don\u2019t like how local communities want to address concerns about public safety,\u201d said Josh Rosenthal, legal director at Public Rights Project, which is working on the suit. \u201cWhen local communities are making choices that these conservative state governments don\u2019t like, state governments aren\u2019t respecting the will of the voters. They\u2019re taking that power away from local communities.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cWhen local communities are making choices that these conservative state governments don\u2019t like, state governments aren\u2019t respecting the will of the voters.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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The Georgia bill is one of at least 37 preemption measures<\/a> \u2014 proposals that seek to limit the power<\/a> of elected prosecutors<\/a> \u2014 introduced in recent years across 17 states. Such bills have multiplied since 2017 after reform prosecutors started winning elections<\/a> in greater numbers<\/a>.<\/p>\n
The laws work in different ways, sometimes prohibiting constituents in certain jurisdictions from electing their own prosecutors, restricting a prosecutor\u2019s authority over certain crimes, or creating new pathways to remove them from office<\/a> altogether.<\/p>\n
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