Court will decide whether the governor’s suspension of elected prosecutor satisfied constitution’s requirements for suspending a state official
District attorneys in Georgia are challenging a statute that allows elected prosecutors to be disciplined and removed for their prosecutorial decisions and speech.
The centuries-old remedy is increasingly used to force hotly contested political issues before state courts.
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