Tag: Ron DeSantis
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A second ex-Guantanamo detainee says Ron DeSantis attended brutal forced feedings
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
A second ex-Guantanamo prisoner has stepped forward to say that Ron DeSantis, while a U.S. Navy JAG officer in 2006, witnessed and allowed the brutal forced feedings of detainees that U.N. human rights authorities, and an international physician’s group have condemned as a form of torture. -
For Ron DeSantis, freedom means not having to discuss Guantanamo in new book
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
In his new book, Gov. Ron DeSantis had the opportunity to discuss his record as a U.S. Navy JAG officer in Guantanamo, where a former detainee has accused him of involvement in illegal acts of torture amid a crackdown on hunger strikers in 2006. Yet he chose to remain largely silent. -
New judge recycles Justice Francis’ dubious playbook for West Palm Beach family court case she left behind
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
An unruly family court case that Florida Supreme Court Justice Renatha Francis shed right before she got her promotion last year went to a new Palm Beach Circuit judge who seems to be copying Francis’ controversial moves. -
Broward’s killer sheriff faces twin probable cause findings of perjury as state dawdles and months roll by
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Over the summer, two different state agencies found probable cause to believe that Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony lied under oath for decades, including about his execution style slaying of a young man in Philadelphia when Tony was 14 years old. What’s been done about it? Nothing. -
Ron DeSantis accused of illegal acts of torture against Guantanamo detainees when he was a Navy JAG officer
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Before he was governor, before he was a congressman, Ron DeSantis was a Lt. Commander and JAG lawyer in the U.S. Navy, serving at the Guantanamo Bay terrorist detention camp in Cuba and Fallujah during the Iraq War. -
Fifty years after Roe, Florida targets abortion pill; Women’s health care options dwindle
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
New Florida laws threaten pharmacists and doctors by treating abortion pills like contraband and penalizing their use outside strict limits.
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