TAMPA, Fla. – Ousted former Hillsborough County State Attorney Andrew Warren is taking his fight to regain his job to a higher court.

Gov. Ron DeSantis suspended Warren in August, accusing Warren of resisting the state’s new 15-week abortion ban as well as his policies about not charging people with certain minor crimes.

Warren sued to be reinstated.

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In January, a federal judge dismissed the case. In the ruling, Federal Judge Robert Hinkle said he lacks the proper authority to reinstate Warren as state attorney.

Now, Warren is filing a federal appeal against the judge's ruling.

The appeal will be filed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit in Atlanta.

Warren, a Democrat who had twice been elected to his office, said after the case was initially dismissed that “this was not over.”

“The suspension was always a political stunt, a cheap trick,” Warren said last month. “A federal judge has confirmed that the suspension was illegal.”

According to court records, the judge determined DeSantis was in the wrong and that the governor violated both the Florida Constitution and the First Amendment by suspending Warren.

DeSantis’ office has not commented on Warren’s actions.

After the lawsuit was suspended, the governor’s office tweeted the ruling was: “A win for the governor and a win for the people of Florida.”