Monique Worrell holds a press conference outside her former office in the Orange County Courthouse complex, on Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2023, in Florida. - Ricardo Ramirez Buxeda/Orlando Sentinel/TNS
The day after she filed a petition asking the Florida Supreme Court to restore her to elected office, suspended Orange-Osceola State Attorney Monique Worrell called her ouster by Gov. Ron DeSantis “his latest overreach and his latest abuse of power.” “Although he proclaims to be a man of ‘law and order,’ he has only challenged the Constitution and pushed it to its very extremes at every single end,” she told reporters at a press conference Thursday. “And he has created chaos instead of order.” In asking the justices to reverse DeSantis’ Aug. 9 executive order, Worrell accused the governor of c...
