TAMPA: "Former Hillsborough State Attorney Andrew Warren sued Governor Ron DeSantis in federal court Wednesday, the prosecutor's first legal action since the governor suspended him from office this month. The lawsuit, filed in the Northern District of Florida, alleges DeSantis violated Warren's constitutional right to free speech in his decision to remove the prosecutor from office via executive order. It also challenges the legality of the suspension through a concept called quo warranto, a process through which an ousted official can ask the court "to determine whether a state office or agency has improperly exercised a power or right derived from the state," the lawsuit says. U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle will preside over the case, according to federal court records. He has been on the bench since President Bill Clinton nominated him in 1996.

The executive order suspending Warren cited two policies he'd implemented in the state attorney's office as well as his participation in two joint statements condemning and vowing not to participate in the prosecution of those seeking or providing abortions and gender-affirming care to transgender people.

[Warren] hired attorneys David Singer of the Tampa law firm Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick as well as Jean-Jacques Cabou, a partner at the international law firm Perkins Coie and the co-chair of the firm's white collar and investigations practice."

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