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A federal judge in Florida on Friday permanently blocked a key part of Governor Ron DeSantis’s anti-woke legislation that would have banned diversity- and race-related training in private workplaces.

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[–] teft 144 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] 58008 54 points 3 months ago (2 children)

It's amazing to me that someone who has the wherewithal to rise to the highest offices in the land, can also be such a blubbering insecure weak little bitch that they need to legislate against having to hear about reality. But then again, Donald fucking Trump became president and might do so again. I guess the highest offices in the land are actually pretty easy to get to after all 🤷‍

[–] morphballganon 24 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Easy if you have rich donors

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

And no personal ethics at all. I dont think they even know what ethics are to begin with.

[–] Cosmonauticus 8 points 3 months ago

Let's not place the blame only on DeSantis. There's a large portion of the US who would be fine with Jim Crow being a thing again. Florida voters elected him because they knew he'd do this shit

[–] Cuttlefish1111 20 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

A federal Mandate should be put in place where questionable laws which possibly violate the Constitution are not enforced until they are found legitimate.

He’s like a monkey throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks.

This seems to be a national problem

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I like the intent behind that, but it would also be scary to give the courts even more power at this time in history.

[–] Cuttlefish1111 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The court decides regardless, this would prevent unconstitutional laws from going into effect

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah but the dynamic would probably change quite a bit if they were gatekeepers up front and new laws had to avoid a presidential veto plus a court veto. And it would let the courts act on their own rather then simply deciding cases that end up on their docket.

Like I said, the idea sounds like a nice thing. In just think we’ve seen enough to know that the execution would be a nightmare.

[–] Cuttlefish1111 2 points 3 months ago

It would probably take a constitutional amendment to make questionably unconstitutional law something to be reviewed before it being implemented. Also include a timeline which it must be complete.

I know none of this will happen but I can dream

[–] TheBat 10 points 3 months ago

They did all this and still Meatball Ron and Abhorrent Abbott were ignored in favour of couchfucker as Trump's VP pick. Sad!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

go back to sleep, sheep

  • every Republican politician
[–] FlyingSquid 7 points 3 months ago

Good. Also, fuck the National Review.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

"permanent" here means it will hold until the inevitable appeal to scRotus

[–] orclev 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Lets see what Biden's plan to deal with them is. He's promised to do some kind of SCOTUS reform act before the end of his term.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

the current composition of congress makes any significant changes impossible to achieve.

best that can happen is introduction of such legislation, and their subsequent defeat or burial, this session will call-out republicans who block it--and then they get booted by voters in november in favor of those who will seek meaningful changes next year.

[–] xc2215x 2 points 3 months ago

Awesome move from the judge.