Judge nails DeSantis’s bullshit:

A Florida judge has rebuked Ron DeSantis’s much publicized “office of elections integrity” and dismissed charges against one of the defendants the Republican governor insisted would “pay the price” for criminal election fraud.

DeSantis staged a media event in August announcing what he said was an “opening salvo” in his administration’s efforts to crack down on election fraud, namely the arrest of 20 felons he said had illegally voted.

But it soon emerged that most had been sent voter registration cards by authorities and accordingly believed they were eligible to vote. And earlier this week, footage emerged of the bewilderment and confusion of law enforcement officers and those being arrested.

Bewilderment and shock horror despair of those being arrested. This isn’t a game. DeSantis is a sadist.

On Friday, Miami judge Milton Hirsh dismissed charges against Robert Lee Wood, 56, who was facing up to five years in prison and $5,000 in fines for voting in the 2020 election.

DeSantis’s office of the statewide prosecutor (OSP) had no authority to be bringing such a case, Hirsh ruled. Any such crime must have taken place in two or more judicial circuits, or be an organized criminal conspiracy, neither of which occurred in Wood’s case, he said, according to the Sun-Sentinel.

There’s a stench of Jim Crow around DeSantis’s actions.