The attorney, Adam Richardson, also included DeSantis and Attorney General Ashley Moody in his petition, alleging that they have “waged a campaign to interfere with the election.” Richardson asked justices “to forbid them from misusing or abusing their offices and agencies to interfere with the election for Amendment 4.”
Justices could have dismissed Richardson’s complaint. Instead, they ordered the agency to respond to his allegations by 5 p.m. on Sept. 23.
The lawsuit is the most significant legal pushback so far to DeSantis’ efforts to marshal state resources to defeat Amendment 4, which would overturn the state’s six-week abortion ban if passed by 60% of voters in November. The amendment says, in part, that “no law shall prohibit, penalize, delay, or restrict abortion before viability or when necessary to protect the patient’s health, as determined by the patient’s healthcare provider.”
I left Florida a long time ago and recently had to move back. It used to be blue, and it looks like it could swing back that way because the people here are sick and tired of this rights wing bullshit. DeSantis, Rick Scott, and a lot of other GOP shitheads have fucked this state up, and Floridians are tired of it. There are a lot of black and brown people here, not to mention immigrants and lgbtq people that have had enough of being treated like animals. We want legal weed, legal abortions, and to be treated like human fucking beings.
Climate change, the housing market, and healthcare are all extremely major concerns for us as well. Republicans aren’t doing a goddamn thing about any of those. It’s time for change, and Floridians are ready for it.
I hope you do go back blue. As you said, climate change will not be kind to Florida.
It already isn’t. The heat waves, the increasing strength and number of hurricanes and other storms, the rising sea levels… these aren’t future forecasts— they’ve been happening for years.
You’re right. I was talking more about how most of Florida is at sea level and how you’ll be under water if we don’t do anything. I guess you kind of are under water during hurricane season already. I hope your state government gets rid of all of the fascists.