Posted on 04/20/2019 12:38:24 PM PDT by Jacquerie
On Jan. 4, just days before the start of a makeover of the Florida Supreme Court, justices issued two 4-3 decisions.
The cases drew relatively little attention across the state --- one dealt with Orange County elections, the other with attorney fees in a foreclosure battle. But on the losing end of the decisions were Chief Justice Charles Canady and his frequent allies Ricky Polston and Alan Lawson.
Four days later, three members of the majority in those cases --- longtime justices Barbara Pariente, R. Fred Lewis and Peggy Quince --- left the court because of a mandatory retirement age. And after Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis named three replacements, the Supreme Court took the unusual step this week of reversing course on the Jan. 4 decisions.
Justices, in a pair of 6-1 opinions Thursday, overturned the two rulings. The only dissenter in both cases: Justice Jorge Labarga, who had sided with Pariente, Lewis and Quince in January.
The new opinions are a tangible early sign about how the Supreme Court has changed since DeSantis appointed justices Barbara Lagoa, Robert Luck and Carlos Muniz to join fellow conservatives Canady, Polston and Lawson. The appointments erased a more-liberal majority that included Pariente, Lewis and Quince and had frequently bedeviled Republican leaders and business interests.
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I am so damn grateful that DeSantis won.
Clap of hands for every single person that voted for him.
I did my part in Georgia. Helped get Kemp elected.
Kept that clown Abrams from getting the Governorship.
Hurray for Florida! Wisconsin has a majority conservative SC now, too!
The rest of you? Get busy! ;)
Good riddance to Barbara Pariente and Peggy Quince
Justices Pariente, Quince Gave $30,000 to Liberal Group Opposing Conservative Colleagues [FL]
Sunshine State News ^ | March 8, 2013 | Eric Giunta
In the wake of Gov. Rick Scott’s appointment of Alan Forst to the Florida 4th District Court of Appeal, Sunshine State News has discovered that state Supreme Court Justices Barbara Pariente and Peggy Quince donated nearly $30,000 to the liberal activist group that opposed Forst’s candidacy. “I believe this is the first time in our history that two sitting Supreme Court justices...
Wow! 6-1... Time to get busy.
FL now has two republican federal senators a Republican Gov, Republican house, Republican senate and a Republican court.
So happy we moved here to FL to help make this state more conservative.
Really? WI? Good to know.
I was always a Rick Scott fan, despite his occasional missteps. Any governor who the teacher unions hated is OK by me.
But DeSantis is really off to a fast start. Soon, patriots will recognize him our nation’s top governor — no disrespect to Gov. Abbott in Texas, he’s great too.
And soon, the evil Left will be howling for DeSantis’ ouster.
Great to see Florida moving more RED!
yep all element of government are now republican, and now we have a Supreme court. Now lets get Broward, Dade, and Palm counties under control and look at their ballot cheating and voter fraud.
You are welcome. Proudest vote after trump in 2016. I voted for Scott too. Glad to kick the democrat out the door. Supposed astronaut Nelson. Ha!
We did great. Made one error. The agricultural secretary. We’ll fix that next opportunity.
I can’t believe how the ag secretary race turned out. There must have been some serious vote fraud.
I live part time in Broward...it won’t be easy.
yep and there is no way that was legit either. We can correct that too.
There was
I and my family are new to Florida and will do our part with 4 more conservative votes. From what I gather the Ag. is involved in gun laws/permits.....so much to learn coming from the bluest of blue states. (NY) We voted red in November in NY, as usual it did not make a difference.
All indications are that Wisconsin will go for Trump in 2020 again, too! Anxious to see the turnout here for him next week...
https://www.donaldjtrump.com/ (April 27th!)
We ‘Normals’ in ‘Der Hinterlands’ are so, SO tired of the GOPe pukes. Outside of Milwaukee and Dane Counties, our state is RED for President Trump. MAGA! :)
Thanks for the good news. I thought having an idiot leftard Gov turned WI blechhh Blue..
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