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Florida death penalty requirement could soon be 8 out of 12 jury votes

Florida’s threshold for the death penalty could soon be the lowest in the nation, with the Florida Senate on Thursday passing a priority bill of Gov. Ron DeSantis to require the vote of only eight jurors out of 12 in order to implement capital punishment.

Tribune News Service

In Georgia, DeSantis finds an enthusiastic GOP reception

About two dozen Republican Georgia state senators gathered in the state Capitol’s second-floor lobby on Thursday, still bleary-eyed from the previous night’s legislative chaos.

Tribune News Service

Trump rival DeSantis says Florida will not ‘extradite’ former president over hush money indictment

Mr Trump has become first former president indicted with criminal charges

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What Trump’s indictment means for his political future — and his party’s

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump is the first former president in history to face a criminal indictment. Here’s what Trump’s indictment might mean for his political future — and his party’s.

Los Angeles Times

Florida OKs bill to carry concealed guns without a permit

Floridians will be able to carry concealed guns without a permit under a bill the Legislature is sending to Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis

The Independent UK

Untangling DeSantis-Disney legal dispute could take years

ORLANDO, Fla. — If they go to court, Disney and Gov. Ron DeSantis’ handpicked oversight board might be in for a multimillion-dollar legal slugfest that could last years.

Orlando Sentinel

DeSantis Signs Bill Banning Rent Control, Preempting Local Zoning Restrictions

The new law would allow developers to build housing on commercially zoned lots provided they include affordable units.

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Florida grand jury focused on unaccompanied migrant children, blasts feds in new report

MIAMI — In a stunning report that may spark new hostilities between the Biden Administration and Gov. Ron DeSantis, Florida’s statewide prosecutor Thursday explicitly accused federal immigration authorities of “human trafficking” in their oversight of unaccompanied migrant children in the state.

Miami Herald

Florida lawmakers OK carrying guns without a permit

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The Republican-controlled Legislature passed a bill Thursday allowing Floridians to carry concealed weapons without a permit or training, disappointing gun violence prevention activists while falling short of what some Second Amendment advocates wanted.

Orlando Sentinel

Ron DeSantis Reportedly Plans To Portray Trump As Soft on Crime

Trump touted his support for sentencing reform as evidence of his "deep compassion," which DeSantis sees as a weakness.

Reason

How Biden's Private Sponsorship Parole Policy Reduced Illegal Migration by Making the Legal Kind Easier

Biden extended the successful Uniting for Ukraine model to cover migrants from four Latin American nations with oppressive governments and horrible conditions, thereby greatly reducing illegal migration from those nations. This effect undercuts a lawsuit challenging the program, filed by twenty red states.

Reason

Trump claims ‘ignorant and foolish’ DeSantis comments about Putin could lead to nuclear war

Former president also brags he is only 2024 candidate who can prevent Third World War

The Independent UK

Not just Trump's VP: Pence touts time as governor, US Rep

As Mike Pence approaches a likely 2024 run for president, he's opening up to audiences about the parts of his career before he served as Donald Trump's vice president

The Independent UK

Michael Hiltzik: How Disney's lawyers brutally mauled DeSantis over control of Disney World

Did you really believe that Florida's arrogant, petty, childish Gov. Ron DeSantis would get the better of Walt Disney Co. in their fight over Disney's supposed "wokeness"?

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The Independent UK

Trump’s lead over 2024 GOP field grows, poll finds

Trump leads with almost every Republican group while Ron DeSantis takes a slight dip

Tribune News Service

Trump opens up wider lead over DeSantis in 2024 Republican presidential poll

Former President Donald Trump has opened up a gaping lead over Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis among Republican presidential primary voters.

WEKU

Disney blocked DeSantis' oversight board. What happens next?

The board members picked by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to oversee development around Walt Disney World announced on Tuesday that they didn't quite have the power they thought they had.

Tribune News Service

Donald Trump trying to lock down Texas before Ron DeSantis joins GOP race for president

WACO, Texas — In front of 20,000 supporters jammed into the Waco Regional Airport, Donald Trump slowly recited the names of 15 Texas elected officials who are endorsing his third campaign for the White House.

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Salon

Disney stripped DeSantis' board of power

Secret deal lasts until "21 years after the death of the last survivor of the descendants" of King Charles III

Chicago Sun-Times

Israel today, America tomorrow

Convulsions in Israel against Netanyahu’s bid for tyranny might be a glimpse into America’s future.

The Guardian - US

Jimmy Kimmel: ‘Grand jury is leaving us hanging like Trump tried to do with Pence’

Late-night hosts discuss the New York grand jury’s two-week hiatus, a looming debt crisis and Fox News nudging Ron DeSantis

The Independent UK

Will the indictment boost Trump’s chances for 2024?

The former president and his most ardent supporters seem sure that whipping up anger around the charge will help carry him to re-election. Eric Garcia speaks to analysts, campaigners and Republicans themselves about whether that’s really true

The Independent UK

Disney’s last-minute deal to strip power from DeSantis-appointed board looks to King Charles

The governor’s attempted state takeover of Walt Disney’s sprawling Florida park campus hits a roadblock after the previous board approved an 11th hour ‘royal clause’

The Guardian - US

‘Desperate and bigoted’: US right uses latest shooting to malign trans people

From hateful rants on Fox news to falsehoods in Congress, the far right is exploiting the Nashville shooting, experts warn

Ballotpedia

Florida becomes fourth state in 2023 to expand ESA program

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