Florida will now only require an 8–4 majority for a jury to recommend a death sentence. Alabama is the only other state that allows split juries to recommend death sentences.
What happened to the claim that this was just about protecting young children?
U.S. District Judge Kathleen Cardone was unimpressed by the Biden administration's argument that marijuana users are too "dangerous" to own guns.
There are some jarring contradictions in the Florida governor's pitch to voters.
S.B. 1718 would make it a third-degree felony to “harbor” or “transport” undocumented immigrants. Some Florida faith leaders say it could threaten their church activities.
New bill makes a mockery of parents’ rights, school choice, and educational freedom.
The new law would allow developers to build housing on commercially zoned lots provided they include affordable units.
The Florida governor has a history of using state power to bully Florida schools over speech he doesn't like. H.B. 1 may accomplish his goal while ceding power to parents.
The former president wanted to "open up" defamation laws. The governor of Florida is about to try.
This was never about shielding just the youngest kids from sexual topics.
Iván Prieto didn’t board the flight back to the communist island on Monday.
The 11th Circuit panel refused to lift an injunction against the law.
Americans shouldn't have to fight to the death to defend their foes' right to speak, but they should at least stop trying to censor, shame, shun and destroy each other.
The bill now bans a battery of poorly-defined "Critical Theory" concepts, and prevents schools from funding programs that promote "diversity, equity, and inclusion."
Despite his declared commitment to freedom and fiscal conservatism, DeSantis' immigration policies represent a dramatic expansion of government power and spending.
Big corporations and entire industries constantly use their connections in Congress to get favors, no matter which party is in power.
State legislators "have independent agency to do things. I don't control every single bill that has been filed," said DeSantis on Tuesday.
Does he want to limit government, or is he just out to win at all costs?
In the old days, conservatives would have viewed unelected officials being appointed to oversee corporate decisions as a worrying intrusion of state power into private affairs. DeSantis has figured out how to get them to cheer for it.
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Florida's H.B. 999 claims to support "viewpoint diversity" and "intellectual rigor." It does just the opposite.
It’s ruff going for the state’s canines.
"The bill is an aggressive and blatantly unconstitutional attempt to rewrite defamation law in a manner that protects the powerful from criticism by journalists and the public," said one attorney.
Apparently, parents’ rights don’t extend to letting their kids listen to naughty Christmas lyrics.
The Florida governor wants to fund more migrant stunts, despite claiming that his budget will “keep more money in the pockets of Floridians.”
The College Board says these changes were already in the works. But even if that's true, they may have just opened a new front in the culture wars.
Floridians will bear the cost of DeSantis currying favor with immigration restrictionists.
The flaws in the states' position are revealed by their own governors' statements about the evils of socialism and the crisis at the border.
Why is Gov. Ron DeSantis acting just like his opposition by attempting to dictate what students are permitted to learn?
"We can't be in a situation where one person can just derail this," DeSantis told a gathering of law enforcement officials.
"In short, the controlling motivations for the suspension were the interest in bringing down a reform prosecutor," the judge wrote.
Data show Florida and New York had similar death numbers despite vastly different approaches.
Florida threatens a venue for letting minors attend a sexualized holiday cabaret performance with their parents.
Another officer claims to have been laid out just by being close to the drug. That’s not how it works.
Now the officer is trying to keep his identity secret under a state law intended to protect crime victims.
Expanding options empowers families and improves education in the country and the city alike.
Florida's Department of Economic Opportunity is suing the city of Gainesville to block its legalization of small "missing middle" apartment buildings in single-family neighborhoods.
Lawmakers are reportedly planning to undo legislation that would have revoked Disney's special tax and governance status.
On Thursday, a federal court granted a preliminary injunction against the portion of the law applying to higher education, with one judge describing the law as "positively dystopian."
The two sheriff's deputies have been disciplined, and the sheriff called the arrest "unacceptable."
