Month: September 2023
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Judge who beat DeSantis favorite Jared Smith at the polls singled out for discipline, could be yanked off court
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
In Florida, all judicial campaign trash talk is not treated alike. If you blast your opponent and lose the election and you’re Jared Smith, abortion foe, Gov. Ron DeSantis rewards you with a higher position on a new appellate court. Then you’re short-listed for the even more powerful Florida Supreme Court. -
An appearance of impropriety: Mothers say Judge Shull tramples their rights to favor fathers
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
Three mothers, parties in Judge Darren Shull’s family court, accuse him of taking this approach: Listen to the fathers, ignore the mothers’ conflicting evidence and rule for the men. -
Miami Commish Alex Diaz de la Portilla facing corruption charges while his district staff skate on campaign violations
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
Even as Miami Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla was put in handcuffs Thursday for bribery and other charges, members of his city staff were the focus of a separate investigation that found they were part of a scheme in which they did paid campaign work for Diaz de la Portilla’s brother while on the taxpayer’s dime. -
Saudi Arabia: Our ally or our ‘perfidious ally’? Calls for a new 9/11 investigation to find out
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
The 9/11 Commission, whose job was to provide the American public with “a full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the September 11 attacks,” went out of business nearly two decades ago, on Aug. 21, 2004. Since then, the public has learned much more about what happened. -
22 years later, justice and information remain elusive for thousands of 9/11 victims and their families
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Twenty-two years ago, the unthinkable happened. Al Qaeda terrorists hijacked and crashed four passenger jets on U.S. soil in a coordinated suicide attack that killed 2,976 men, women and children in New York City, at the Pentagon and in a Pennsylvania field. -
At Planned Parenthood hearing, Supreme Court makes it clear the right to abortion is doomed in Gov. DeSantis’s Florida
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
If there was a shred of doubt that the Florida Supreme Court will sign off on the state’s extreme abortion bans, it vanished during Friday’s hearing in the case of Planned Parenthood v. State of Florida.
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