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Orlando Sentinel
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Scott Maxwell

Scott Maxwell: Fla. tax dollars pay lawyers $675 an hour to defend unconstitutional laws

Florida lawmakers keep getting smacked around by federal judges who say the politicians in Tallahassee treat toilet paper with more respect than the United States Constitution.

Judges from both sides of the aisle have shot down the governor’s and Legislature’s attempts to manipulate election laws, take control of privately funded social media operations and imprison citizens who donate to political causes the politicians dislike. Yes, imprison.

In some of these cases, GOP lawmakers knew what they were doing was illegal. Their own staffers warned them. So did fellow Republicans. But they didn’t care. Not about the Constitution they took oaths to uphold. Nor about how many of your tax dollars they spent defending this garbage.

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