Category: Legislature
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Florida’s befuddling new voting laws all but guarantee widespread chaos in next year’s elections
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
Floridians of every political persuasion who want to vote or help get out the vote in the 2024 elections must navigate a bog of confounding and scary new rules, courtesy of Gov. Ron DeSantis’s administration. -
Justice Canady ignores his conflict of interest in high-profile abortion ban case
By Dan Christensen and Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
Florida Supreme Court Justice Charles Canady has an undeclared conflict of interest amid the high court’s review of a strict abortion ban passed by the Legislature and signed into law by Gov. Ron DeSantis last year. -
State Sen. Jason Pizzo temporarily cancels state audit of North Miami Beach amid racial tensions
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
Jason Pizzo, the Florida state senator representing portions of North Miami Beach, has backed off his request to have state auditors examine the embattled city’s operations and finances. -
DeSantis war on ‘woke’ leads to faculty brain drain at Florida public universities
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
Campuses at Florida public universities are experiencing an exodus of faculty members, while out-of-state professors searching for new jobs are saying “no thanks” to working in the Sunshine State under the rule of Gov. Ron DeSantis. -
State senator who backed flying confederate battle flag tweets he’s not ‘confederate sympathizer’
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Oops. That’s the key takeaway from Republican State Sen. Jay Collins’ chief of staff’s tweet Wednesday declaring that his boss’s proposed legislation to authorize the confederate battle flag to be flown on state and local government buildings in Florida was merely a blunder. -
A move to resurrect the confederate flag across Florida quickly fizzles in public sunlight
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Eight years after the Florida senate stripped the confederate battle flag from that chamber’s official seal, a state senator tried briefly Tuesday to ensure the confederate flag could fly at government buildings across the state.
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