Jesus wept. He's no MLK, no Rosa Parks and no RFK. Will newly appointed Florida Attorney General JAMES UTHMEIER, Florida Governor RONALD DION DeSANTIS' former campaign manager, under investigation for fraud in Hope Florida scandal, be held in contempt of court? You tell me. Are UTHMEIER's massive resistance to a federal court order an unethical campaign tactic? If UTHMEIER wants to keep his AG gig, Florida Attorney General JAMES UTHMEIR must actually be elected run on November 3, 2026. Based on his actions, AG JAMES UTHMEIER he should be defeated. Unctuous DeSANTIS toady JAMES UTHMEIER sounds like he badly needs a charisma bypass. Florida Attorney General JAMES UTHMEIER rather reminds of the late churlish Alabama Governor George Corley Wallace, standing in the schoolhouse door in response to federal court orders on desegregtation. Perhaps juvenile JAMES UTHMEIER needs to head back to the Georgetown University Law Center for retreading, and for remedial ethics and constitutional law?
Attorney General James Uthmeier may be Florida’s top cop. But he’s also willing to risk lockup to protect the state’s prerogatives in fighting illegal immigration.
“I am not going to sign this letter to law enforcement telling them to stand down on a law when they’re not a party to the case,” he said to podcaster Josh Hammer.
“And the Judge, if she wants to lock me up in jail, I’m willing to take that. I’m not going to cave and renege on my oath to uphold and defend our state constitution and laws.”
The Judge in question is the Barack Obama-appointed U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams. She is considering holding Uthmeier, who was recently appointed AG by Gov. Ron DeSantis, in contempt of court.
At issue is Senate Bill 4C, which proscribes penalties for illegal entry and illegal reentry, mandates imprisonment for being in Florida illegally, and capital punishment for any such undocumented immigrant who commits capital crimes.
Uthmeier’s position is that he lacks standing to tell law enforcement to stand down in invoking the law against people suspected of being in the country illegally.
“The Judge in Miami … wants to hold me in contempt because I said I would not … order law enforcement to stand down on our immigration laws. And it’s because none of these law enforcement agencies she wanted me to direct are even parties to the case,” he said.
During the interview first publicized Thursday, Uthmeier expressed hope that his stand would be a model for others “pushing back … and fighting against these Judges that really act like radical legislators,” and would lead Judges to stand down.
“It’s going to take leaders across the country saying, ‘You don’t have the authority to do what you’re doing. And, you know, I don’t care what you do to me. At the end of the day, the Constitution and my principles are more important,'” he told Hammer.
“And I think as you start to question the authority, you’ll have Judges, hopefully the Supreme Court (as) we’ve already seen some adjustment to preserve their own credibility, start to adjust and change their ways.”
A.G. Gancarski
A.G. Gancarski has been the Northeast Florida correspondent for Florida Politics since 2014. His work also can be seen in the Washington Post, the New York Post, the Washington Times, and National Review, among other publications. He can be reached at AG@FloridaPolitics.com or on Twitter: @AGGancarski
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"States rights" code for anti human rights, and in the past, racism. Used to be the black people they were against now it's other people with dark skin..the Hispanics. They aren't too fond of gay people either.
Government in the USA is a complete wreck of a shit show. I tell people all the time, send your children to Europe where they have functional political systems and structures. The sun has set on American civil society.
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