Ron DeSantis, Florida’s Republican hard-right governor, will be termed out of office in barely 10 months’ time. Civil rights groups watching a slew of new restrictive laws passing through the state’s legislature say his bequest will be a “police state”, where government officials dictate what residents can do, say or believe.
They point in particular to two House bills they say restrict free speech, and which have already found favor with Florida’s veto-proof Republican majority:
