Georgia Republicans are staunch law and order types who back the blue and support local control … except when Democrats succeed in electing district attorneys who enforce their own priorities. In that case, the legislature needs to swing into action to tell those prosecutors what’s what!

This week, Georgia joined the ranks of states proposing bills to impose statewide oversight on local prosecutors and even remove them from office if they fall out of favor with the ruling party. SB 92, which passed the Georgia Senate 32-24 on Thursday, would create a Prosecuting Attorneys Qualifications Commission composed of gubernatorial and legislative appointees empowered to “discipline, remove, and cause involuntary retirement of appointed or elected district attorneys or solicitors-general” for “mental or physical incapacity,” “willful misconduct in office,” or “willful and persistent failure to carry out duties.”

As the New York Times points out, the blanket refusal by some local district attorneys to prosecute abortion, even as dozens of states impose draconian […]