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Scott Maxwell: Florida drag queen ruling reveals lies. Read the laws yourself

A federal judge in Orlando has delivered yet another legal smackdown to Gov. Ron DeSantis and GOP legislators, this time blocking the state’s new anti-drag-queen law.

Orlando Sentinel

Editorial: Anyone else dreading July 1, when Florida loosens its gun laws?

Anyone with good sense in Florida is dreading July 1.

Tribune News Service

Florida sweetens pension pot, hoping to retain public employees

TALLAHASSEE – Gov. Ron DeSantis and state lawmakers are gambling that an expansion of government employee retirement benefits that take effect Saturday will keep veteran teachers, firefighters, police and other crucial public employees from leaving their jobs.

Orlando Sentinel

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DeSantis says if elected he would abolish education, energy and IRS departments to fight ‘woke ideology’

The Florida governor is trailing former president Donald Trump by wide margins in Republican primary polls

The Independent UK

With ‘Bidenomics,’ President Biden aims for middle-class voters as he discusses economy during Chicago address

CHICAGO — President Joe Biden sought to revitalize support for his reelection among middle-class voters before a Chicago audience Wednesday, branding his efforts at economic growth, job creation and inflation fighting as “Bidenomics” to counter lagging job approval ratings.

Chicago Tribune

DeSantis proposes Disney trial schedule that puts start date in 2025, after elections

Attorneys for Gov. Ron DeSantis have asked that a trial involving Disney be postponed until the middle of 2025, well after the GOP presidential nomination race wraps up and voters have picked a winner in the November 2024 general election

The Independent UK

Hall Pass: Your Ticket to Understanding School Board Politics, Edition #67

Welcome to Hall Pass, a newsletter written to keep you plugged into the conversations driving school board politics and governance.

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DeSantis wants Disney trial held after presidential election

ORLANDO, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis’ legal team wants the trial date for a high-stakes battle with Disney to be in August 2025, well after the presidential election.

Orlando Sentinel

DeSantis supporter blames Trump camp for leaking racist and antisemitic messages

Right-wing writer says messages leaked because he’s ‘become most effective critic of Trump since jumping off Trump train’

The Independent UK

US House Races See More Major-Party Competition

Percentage of US House general elections with only one major party candidate has decreased over the past decade

Zenger

Watch as LA immigrant groups hold solidarity rally in protest of ‘show me your papers’ Florida law

Watch as Los Angeles immigrant communities, immigrant rights organisations and allies hold a solidarity rally to condemn Ron DeSantis’s attacks on immigrants through legislation, such as the “show me your papers” law that goes into effect on 1 July 2023.

The Independent UK

Trump leads in 2024 Republican presidential primary RealClearPolitics polling average and PredictIt market

As of June 26, 2023, former President Donald Trump (R) holds a lead in both RealClearPolitics’ (RCP) Republican presidential primary polling average and PredictIt’s Republican presidential primary market.

Ballotpedia

Matthew Yglesias: It’s not Trump’s party so much as Jason Smith’s

If you want to know how Donald Trump would govern if he wins in 2024 — or Ron DeSantis or for that matter Will Hurd — tune out the din of the Republican presidential campaign and cast your gaze toward the House of Representatives. What you will see is that…

Tribune News Service

Trump Can't Decide Whether To Free Drug Dealers or Kill Them

His bloody rhetoric undermines his defense of the sentencing reforms he proudly embraced as president.

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Republican senator warns people with left-wing political views not to travel to Florida

Rick Scott repeats a stunt from May

Chicago Sun-Times

Free or execute drug dealers? Trump can’t make us his mind

Trump seems determined to show, by re-upping his kill-them-all proposal, that he can be even more mindlessly punitive than Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Tribune News Service

Florida Supreme Court justice should recuse himself on key abortion case, says ex-chief justice

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Barbara Pariente, a former chief justice of the Florida Supreme Court, said Tuesday that one of the current justices, Charles Canady, should recuse himself from the case before the court that will decide if state efforts to sharply reduce access to abortion are constitutional.

Salon

Complaint: DeSantis got illegal donation

"As this complaint shows, foreign money may already be influencing the 2024 presidential election," expert warns

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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy says he doesn’t know if Trump is best candidate to beat Biden

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said Tuesday that he’s not sure if former President Donald Trump is the best Republican candidate to take on President Joe Biden — then quickly flip-flopped to praise the GOP’s most powerful leader.

Miami Herald

Watchdog alleges Canadian hedge fund gave illegal contributions to DeSantis campaign

MIAMI — An election watchdog organization has filed a second complaint against Gov. Ron DeSantis’ political campaign, alleging a Canadian hedge fund made more than $167,000 in illegal contributions to his operation.

WEKU

Judge blocks a Florida law that would punish venues where kids can see drag shows

The ruling, in a case brought by a Hamburger Mary's restaurant, pauses enforcement of the state's new "Protection of Children" law, which prohibits admitting children to an "adult live performance."

The Independent UK

Kevin McCarthy walks back Trump criticism following backlash from Magaworld

McCarthy has long been reticent to criticise the indicted former president

Tribune News Service

What Florida, DeSantis can learn from other governors who ran for president

TAMPA, Fla. — One afternoon late last month, Ron DeSantis the governor and Ron DeSantis the presidential candidate were theoretically doing two different things at once.

Cinemablend

Governor DeSantis Just Rolled Out An Entirely New Legal Strategy In His War Against Disney World

Ron DeSantis' argument against Disney World's lawsuit could have major ramifications.

Reason

Ron DeSantis' Border Plan: Invade Mexico, Shoot Drug Smugglers, End Birthright Citizenship

The 2024 hopeful has put together a platform full of big-government action.

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