Posted on 11/22/2022 1:40:19 PM PST by Signalman
Democrats are waging lawfare to try and slow down Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
Now these leftists scored a huge win.
And Ron DeSantis was defeated when a judge’s ruling dealt him this major setback.
Democrats are utilizing the same strategy to thwart Governor DeSantis’ agenda that they did with Donald Trump.
Judge-shop until you find a friendly left-wing judge who will issue preliminary injunctions blocking key agenda items.
Even if you lose on appeal, it generates headlines in the press that allows leftists to claim DeSantis is some kind of rogue executive.
That’s exactly what happened when U.S. District Court Judge Mark Walker ruled against portions of the state’s Stop W.O.K.E. Act, which prevents Marxist Critical Race Theory instruction in the classrooms.
Judge Walker’s decision included the type of flowery language and hyperventilating comparisons to George Orwell’s 1984 that a judge would include when they know their ruling will be struck down on appeal but they just want to make a political point.
“‘It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen,’ and the powers in charge of Florida’s public university system have declared the State has unfettered authority to muzzle its professors in the name of ‘freedom,’” Walker ranted.
“Our professors are critical to a healthy democracy, and the State of Florida’s decision to choose which viewpoints are worthy of illumination and which must remain in the shadows has implications for us all,” Walker added.
Walker called teachers “priests of democracy” and claimed being able to teach Critical Race Theory was central to the survival of American democracy.
“If our ‘priests of democracy’ are not allowed to shed light on challenging ideas, then democracy will die in darkness,” Walker continued. “But the First Amendment does not permit the State of Florida to muzzle its university professors, impose its own orthodoxy of viewpoints and cast us all into the dark.”
The Stop W.O.K.E. Act only applies to government school teachers and professors who are government employees.
State government has an interest in what government employees say when they are on the job.
That’s why government employees can’t engage in political activities in their official capacities.
The Stop W.O.K.E. Act will survive on appeal to the 11th Circuit for this very reason.
And the DeSantis administration made it clear it would appeal this ruling.
“We strongly disagree with Judge Walker’s preliminary injunction orders on the enforcement of the Stop W.O.K.E. Act and will continue to fight to prevent Florida’s students and employees from being subjected to discriminatory classroom instruction or mandated discriminatory workplace training,” DeSantis spokesman Bryan Griffin stated.
“The Stop W.O.K.E. Act protects the open exchange of ideas by prohibiting teachers or employers who hold agency over others from forcing discriminatory concepts on students as part of classroom instruction or on employees as a condition of maintaining employment,” Griffin continued. “An ‘open-minded and critical’ environment necessitates that one is free from discrimination.”
The biggest school reform would be to copy Arizona’s plan, the State of Arizona spends approximately $7000/year/per student, that money follows the student.
A parent can elect for their child to attend any public, private, religious or home schooling they desire, and a $7000 voucher will be issued to that parent for the child.
The State doesn’t bow down to inferior courts created by Congress, “in all cases where a State is party to the action, the Supreme Court SHALL have original jurisdiction.
ARREST the Judge for INSURRECTION!!!
Yes and no.
Offer some legal incentives for including Anti-CRT elements in curricula.
Find ways to ding budgets of woke trash
Soon the left will have painted an image of Desantis as the most evil man in the universe.
WWALD? What would a Lib do, disregard the ruling, make the other side sue again and again. Just look at the rules and laws the Libs did not follow in the last election, no stopping them with Laws, they are on a mission!
Judges impose existing law only. If a law is nebulous to the point that different rulings can be shopped then that law should be tried first.
The problem is too much government, bureaucrats with too much slack
Bingo...the judge has no meaningful enforcement arm.
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Walker is a bombastic fool.
“Florida— Woke Dies Here!”
And this?..
A preliminary injunction is NOT a big win.
DeSantis will work this out.
I am pretty certain the ruling only applies to state run colleges and universities.
Not quite, the Democrat controlled government criminally attempted to undermine, compromise and overthrow a presidential candidate and then the president of the United States. Among many other crimes directed at Trump.
Time to use a tried and true method for reining in judges.
Rope and tree 🌳
The only ones who want to be “above it all” are squish spineless rhino pieces of garbage.
I got no problem going Street on these bastards.
How many state police and national guardsmen does DeSantis have… However many it is, it’s a hell of a lot more than one bailiff
Long past time to give them a taste of their own attitude.
…Or a “whiff of grapeshot”.
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