“Its being fought on the basis that the ban is against the Fla. state constitution, not federal. The USSC decision has nothing to do with it”
Exactly what the USSC intended. Let the states work it out. It is now up to the governor and legislature to clamp down on the rogue courts if it is the will of the people. It will take several years to restore government processes, checks, and balances ripped apart by the federal courts as accountability is returned to the states and we transition back to living under the Constitution.
I don't think the Florida Constitution mentions the word abortion.
Going from memory . . . the pro-abortion group claims that about 1989 the Florida courts voted to say they had found language in the state Constitution that protected women's right to abortion.
A lot has happened since then. For one thing no one knows what is meant by the term “woman.”
And today's Florida Supreme Court is not the court appointed by Lawton Chiles. No justice on the court today was appointed by a Democrat, although three were appointed by Charlie Christ before he showed out.
Governor DeSantis has appointed three of the seven current justices during his first term.
Net: the Florida Supreme Court is thought to be reliably conservative on the matter of giving unborn children the death penalty.