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He became governor in 2018 in a razor thin victory over Andrew Gillum. Gillum was later revealed to be a closeted meth head. 
If I knew then what I know now, I'd still vote for the closeted meth head.
GOP: "We need transparency in the governement!"
"Okay, show us these records."
GOP: "Not for us... just the Democrats." >

Indeed...I don't know who invented the idea of "Rules for thee not for me" but I'd wager it was a Republican empty skull lol >

I t believe it’s attributed to the Romans but they appropriated a lot of things so maybe someone else? >

Pretty sure George Santos came up with that actually >

You're both right. George Santos was the Roman emperor who coined the phrase. >

Come to think of it...wasn't he THE founders of Rome? Back when he worked under the twin aliases,  the brothers Romulus and Remus? >

We would have heard about a wolf killed in 9/11. >

The Florida Sunshine Law just keeps eating it.

Gov. Ron DeSantis is using a legal concept historically wielded by the president of the United States as a justification to keep some information secret, sparking concerns from open-government advocates that Florida’s public records laws could be undermined.
DeSantis has invoked executive privilege on several occasions in recent court battles, a right that is not defined in state law or mentioned in the Florida Constitution. >

This probably isn't going to hold up to further court scrutiny. >

He'll just fire the judges who disagree with him. >

Not following Florida directly, but didn't he already do that?  Or was it the AG or something. >

Hillsborough County District Attorney. A judge recently ruled that DeSantis violated the first amendment by firing him, but also said that the court in question didn’t have the authority to reinstate him. >

A federal judge. It will now go to state courts which will have the authority to reinstate him if they rule the same way. >

As a lay person, and forgive me if this is an ignorant question, but why does the Judge need to be reinstated if the firing itself wasn't permissible. Shouldn't the judge simply return Monday morning as if this whole affair never occurred? >

It was a District Attorney not a judge. The Federal Judge was ruling on this case due to an appeal I'm guessing, I don't quite remember.
Back to your question though, While this federal judge found it was in violation from a federal perspective which might give the district attorney the capability to sue for civil damages, he didn't have the power to grant the job back to the DA, as that was up to the state.
The reason he cant just walk back in as if the whole affair never occurred is that since hes been suspended, people were told to probably remove his access to things and security to not allow him in the building on the orders of the Governor, someone much higher in power than the DA. So until a state judge overrules the governor and said ruling allows IT, security, and other departments to allow the DA to work again, he's suspended.
Edit: Legally there is also probably a big no-no too for the DA to try and do stuff while still officially suspended from a state perspective. >

Thank you, I really appreciate the explanation. >

How is Great Value Trump doing on the homeowners insurance crisis?  Maybe instead of banning books and vaccines and giving every zygote a gun at conception he could do something to benefit his state. >


homeowners insurance crisis

This.  We are being EATEN ALIVE by insurance premiums in Florida.
I have a concrete block house built in the 1950s.  It has a brand new roof that I paid to install.  My last homeowners 's insurance premium for one year of coverage was SIX THOUSAND DOLLARS.
DeSantis is such an idiot.
This premium excludes water damage, and has like a six percent deductible for hurricane damage.
The prices are shooting up, and the coverage is going down.  This is unsustainable. >

He’s a genius. He does nothing but tilt at windmills and got elected in a landslide. Florida voters are the idiots >

Eh, Florida Democrats dug up the bloated corpse of Charlie Crist to run against him - you know, the guy who lost the general election as a Republican, a Democrat, AND as an Independent.
I not once saw any ads for him here in Tampa. It's like the opposition just said fuck it and did the bare minimum. >

Where are the voters though? We can’t abstain from responsibility. “The party didn’t excite me and tickle my balls so I stayed at home and let the fascist win” isn’t a great look.
There is zero chance the GOP doesn’t take over the entire country with this attitude. Republicans will always vote for whomever the R is, and they’ll rush the voting booths to do it. Democratic voters expecting the “perfect candidate” will never be satisfied as there isn’t one. >

You’re right, but Kari Lake managed to piss off enough Rs that she lost. So there is hope >

Boebert almost did the same. She won her election by barely 500 votes (close enough to trigger an automatic recount) in a district that went R+9 in 2020 and got redder in the redistrict. >

If this dude gets elected president the US is going to have a serious problem. >


The US is going to have another serious problem. >

Just add it to the pile >

The pile is gettin pretty high lol
Not saying you contribute but your state has sent one of the worst influences on politics to the senate for far too long...my state is no better though.  We've had one decent federal politician in my lifetime and I don't even get to vote for him because I'm not in his district lol. We also continue to send, literally the most useless senator ever, Cindy Hyde Smith to congress when precisely zero things she's put her shakily drawn X to have passed the full senate...I'm pretty sure she's never had anything successfully pass a committee either but I don't know that one for sure. >

This is infuriating and terrifying. Sitting Presidents are the only ones with executive privelage, not govenors. Nothing in the constitution grants govenors this power. This dude is acting with impunity and isn't being held accountable. 
It's been terrifying and depressing watching so many vile people in power violate the law and others' rights without consequences. >


Sitting Presidents are the only ones with executive privelage, not govenors.

In truth, the concept of executive privilege for a governor is just as defined, by constitution or statute, as the concept of executive privilege for presidents: it isn't, and neither should have it. >

Embarrassingly, after your comment, I discovered that govenors have successfully claimed executive privilege. 
I always picture it as only pertaining to national security. Eg a president's discussion with intelligence agencies regarding a legislators potential treason should not be made available to the legislators.
And seeing as how national security is not in the purview of a govenor, I assumed they could not claim it. >

It's interesting how powers are claimed as much as granted, and atrophy from disuse.
Remember that the Supreme Court granted itself the power of Judicial Review, and yet, President Jackson said in apocryphal, "John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it."
If DeSantis continues to claim executive privilege and other people let him get away with it, then in time, any future exercises of that power can invoke precedence (there's a familiar word), and the power will be sanctified by time and tradition.  (The if is doing a lot of heavy lifting there and many lawyers are hard at working contesting that).
Power does not solely comes from law. The law is a source of legitimacy for a nation of laws, but the sources of power are far murkier for us social creatures, as we are not so far removed from Frankish kings had struggled to exercise their ancient powers and rights by nothing more than making it up and seeing what they could get away with.
In a very real sense, if a leader says they have a power and other people agree, then they have that power, no matter what the laws or institutions have to say. >

And this right here is why the GOP shrieks about "states rights". They want their racist trash states to be dictatorships unto themselves with no accountability or oversight so that they can pull authoritarian shit like this unobstructed. >

Exactly. It’s not about “what the people want” it’s about taking from the working class and giving it to the rich all while subjugating people to their religious controlling beliefs. Not taking federal aid purely to stay in control and half of the idiot  civilians just cheer because they think they are getting their religious freedums and having the ability to shit and jeer on someone lower than them. >


DeSantis has invoked executive privilege on several occasions in recent court battles, a right that is not defined in state law or mentioned in the Florida Constitution. Most recently, a Leon County judge recognized executive privilege in an order denying a public records request seeking the identities of “legal conservative heavyweights” DeSantis consulted when picking state Supreme Court justices.

DeSantis has the courts saying, "yes, sah". At least one judge.