Category: Governor
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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. -
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. -
Desantis appoints Moms for Liberty co-founder to seat on the Florida Commission on Ethics
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Two weeks after his previous choice for ethics commissioner quit after his conflict-of-interest was exposed, Gov. Ron DeSantis has appointed controversial Moms for Liberty co-founder Tina Descovich to fill a seat on the Florida Commission on Ethics. -
Appellate judges signal they see no conflict in Darren Shull keeping a politically connected father’s child custody case
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
Although state child welfare authorities are still looking into an incident that raises concerns about Judge Darren Shull’s impartiality, his appeals court supervisors seem bent on allowing him to continue making questionable calls unchecked. -
Broward Sheriff Tony running again even as state ethics and police standards commissions push cases against him toward trial
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony hasn’t filed paperwork to run for re-election next year, but there’s no doubt now that he’s running – despite a mountain of bad news, including findings by two state commissions that there’s probable cause to believe that he’s lied repeatedly under oath.
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