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  • Federal Court Chides Dem Activists: There’s Nothing Racist About Election Integrity Laws Like Florida’s

    09/23/2023 12:16:21 PM PDT · by CFW · 22 replies
    The Federalist ^ | 9/22/23 | SHAWN FLEETWOOD
    A full federal appeals court declined to take up Democrat groups’ challenge of Florida’s 2021 election integrity law on Thursday, marking a major win for Gov. Ron DeSantis and the GOP-controlled state legislature. According to the Orlando Sentinel, Thursday’s decision by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals “let stand an April ruling by a three-judge panel of the [court] that sided with the state on major issues in the case.” The 11th Circuit’s April decision effectively overturned a prior ruling issued by U.S. District Judge Mark Walker — an Obama appointee — who baselessly claimed the law in question discriminated...
  • Alabama can enforce ban on puberty blockers and hormones for transgender children, court rules

    08/21/2023 4:37:35 PM PDT · by CFW · 5 replies
    Washington Times ^ | 8/21/23 | staff
    MONTGOMERY, Ala. — A federal appeals court ruled Monday that Alabama can enforce a ban outlawing the use of puberty blockers and hormones to treat transgender children, the second such appellate victory for gender-transition care restrictions that have been adopted by a growing number of Republican-led states. A three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals lifted a judge’s temporary injunction against enforcing the law. The judge has scheduled trial for April 2 on whether to permanently block the law. The ruling follows a string of decisions in recent weeks against similar bans. A federal judge in June...
  • AG Moody defeats Biden administration in court, again

    06/06/2023 6:35:31 AM PDT · by CFW · 14 replies
    The Center Square ^ | 6/5/23 | Bethany Blankley
    Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody won another round against the Biden administration in federal court, this time in the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. On Monday, the court ruled to keep in place an injunction against the Department of Homeland Security’s parole program. The injunction was issued by a federal district judge in Florida last month. DHS appealed the judge’s ruling and lost. On May 8, U.S. District Judge T. Kent Wetherell of the Northern District of Florida Pensacola Division vacated DHS’s “Policy on the Use of Parole Plus Alternatives to Detention to Decompress Border Locations.” On May 16, he...
  • Florida Scores Huge Win for Free and Fair Elections Over Marc Elias and an Obama Judge

    04/27/2023 5:21:24 PM PDT · by CFW · 12 replies
    Red State ^ | 4/27/23 | Streiff
    On Thursday, a panel of the 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals handed Florida Governor a huge victory over Marc Elias, judicial overreach, and industrial strength stupidity. By a 2-1 decision, an Obama judge dissenting, the panel upheld nearly all of Florida’s overhaul of voting rules in May 2021. I would call it controversial, but it was only controversial to people whose lives depend upon supporting vote fraud. In May 2021, the Florida legislature passed a major overhaul of state election law. The law’s goals were to make elections more transparent and trustworthy while outlawing known abuses of the system,...
  • Federal appeals court blocks ‘Stop Woke Act,’ but state confident in appeal (FL)

    03/17/2023 12:07:15 PM PDT · by Jacquerie · 5 replies
    The Capitolist ^ | March 16th 2023 | Caden DeLisa
    A trio of federal appellate judges upheld a prior legal ruling on Thursday that bars the state of Florida from enforcing the ‘Stop WOKE Act’ while it faces ongoing legal battles related to its constitutionality. The measure, supported by Gov. Ron DeSantis, imposes restrictions on the instruction of race-related concepts in Florida’s public universities. The decision affirmed a ruling ordered by Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Walker last year, where he granted a preliminary injunction against the legislation, finding that it violated First Amendment rights. “Neither the state of Florida’s authority to regulate public school curriculum nor its interest in...
  • Federal Court Strikes Down Tampa's Ban on Counseling for Minors Seeking Freedom

    02/05/2023 1:58:43 PM PST · by daniel1212 · 14 replies
    The Christian Broadcasting Network, ^ | 02-03-2023 | Benjamin Gill
    The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has struck down Tampa, Florida's ban against talk therapy for minors seeking freedom from unwanted same-sex attraction. The city had tried to block licensed therapists from providing voluntary counseling to those minors. The federal appeals court ruled on Thursday that the ban is unconstitutional under the First Amendment.... The latest ruling is based on Liberty Counsel's previous victory in Otto v. City of Boca Raton in which the Eleventh Circuit had ruled that similar attempts to muzzle counselors from helping their clients in Palm Beach County and the City of Boca Raton were unconstitutional...
  • Florida judge officially dumps Trump lawsuit over Mar-a-Lago document seizure

    12/12/2022 10:33:52 AM PST · by Coronal · 27 replies
    Miami Herald ^ | December 12, 2022 | Jay Weaver
    Former president Donald Trump’s legal effort to thwart a Justice Department investigation into classified documents seized from his palatial Palm Beach estate was officially tossed out Monday. U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, after being rebuked by a federal appellate court for allowing Trump’s lawsuit to move forward, brought his controversial lawsuit to a halt after the court had ordered her to end it. “This case is dismissed for lack of jurisdiction,” Cannon wrote in a one-page order released Monday. “The Clerk of Court shall close this case.” At the beginning of the month, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in...
  • BREAKING: Court Throws Out Special Master For Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Documents Case

    12/01/2022 4:46:59 PM PST · by Macho MAGA Man · 69 replies
    The Gateway Pundit ^ | December 1, 2022 | Cristina Laila
    A federal appeals court on Thursday halted Judge Aileen Cannon’s special master review in Trump’s Mar-a-Lago documents case. In September, Judge Cannon appointed a special master to review the documents seized at Mar-a-Lago. Biden’s corrupt Justice Department argued that a special master didn’t have a right to filter out the seized documents. The court blasted Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee, and said she erred in appointing Raymond Dearie as a special master to review documents seized from Mar-a-Lago. “The law is clear,” the judges wrote. “We cannot write a rule that allows any subject of a search warrant to...
  • JUST IN: Appeals Court Grants DOJ Motion to Fast-Track Appeal of Judge Cannon’s Order Appointing Special Master to Oversee Seized Documents

    10/05/2022 10:48:57 AM PDT · by Macho MAGA Man · 14 replies
    The Gateway Pundit ^ | October 5, 2022 | Cristina Laila
    The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals strikes again! The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday granted the Justice Department’s motion to expedite its appeal to Judge Aileen Cannon’s order appointing a special master to oversee the documents seized from Mar-a-Lago. The DOJ last Friday moved to expedite its appeal of Cannon’s order appointing Raymond Dearie as special master. “The Justice Department is asking the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals to order all papers be filed in the case by Nov. 11, and hold any necessary hearing in the case as soon as that briefing is completed.” Reuters reported. The...
  • Donald Trump Asks Supreme Court to Intervene in Mar-a-Lago Raid Case

    10/04/2022 9:25:24 PM PDT · by SoConPubbie · 18 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 4 Oct 2022 | JORDAN DIXON-HAMILTON
    Former President Donald Trump is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in the legal battle over government documents the FBI seized from his Mar-a-Lago estate, a Tuesday filing shows.Trump’s legal team asked Justice Clarence Thomas to issue an emergency order authorizing the special master’s authority to review over 100 documents seized from Mar-a-Lago with classified markings.The request was directed to Justice Thomas because he oversees the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, which ruled last month that special master Raymond Dearie cannot review the documents that were marked classified.The 11th Circuit also ruled that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ)...
  • Former Trump Lawyer Finds 'Huge Revelation' on Page 6 of 11th Circuit Decision

    09/24/2022 6:59:02 PM PDT · by Macho MAGA Man · 21 replies
    Western Journal ^ | September 24, 2022 | C Douglas Golden
    A former attorney for Donald Trump condemned a decision by an appeals court to allow the Justice Department to continue examining classified materials seized during the Mar-a-Lago raid in August, alleging court documents contained a “huge revelation” which backed up Trump’s case. According to CNN, Wednesday’s unanimous ruling by a three-judge panel on the 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals overruled a trial judge who had blocked federal investigators from continuing to examine documents marked as classified. Two of the judges on the panel had been nominated by Trump. Subscribe Log In Equipping Readers with The Truth Sunday, September 25,...
  • DOJ will appeal judge order to appoint special master to review records seized by FBI from Trump's Mar-a-Lago

    09/08/2022 3:15:25 PM PDT · by conservative98 · 56 replies
    Fox News ^ | 9/8/22 | Brooke Singman
    The Justice Department on Thursday informed the court that it will appeal the federal judge's order for the appointment of a special master to review the records seized by the FBI during its unprecedented raid of former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home, if the court does not grant the government a stay in the case. The Justice Department filed a "notice of appeal" to U.S. District Judge from the Southern District of Florida Judge Aileen M. Cannon on Thursday. The filing specifically states that the government "respectfully moves for a partial stay" pending its appeal of Cannon's ruling Monday, which ordered...
  • Appeals court halts Sen. Lindsey Graham testimony in Georgia 2020 election probe

    08/21/2022 1:06:43 PM PDT · by conservative98 · 26 replies
    NY Post ^ | August 21, 2022 1:27pm | Mark Moore
    A federal appeals court ​on Sunday halted Sen. Lindsey Graham’s testimony before the grand jury investigating possible illegal efforts by allies of former President Donald Trump’s to overturn the results of the 2020 election in Georgia. The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, acting on a request by the South Carolina Republican, temporarily blocked a decision by a federal judge in Atlanta that rejected Graham’s claim of congressional immunity and ordered him to appear before the special grand jury on Tuesday. ​ The three-panel appeals court returned the matter to ​US District Judge Leigh Martin May​ ​to decide whether the subpoena...
  • BREAKING: DOJ Will Appeal Ruling Nixing Federal Mask Mandates

    04/19/2022 6:00:31 PM PDT · by george76 · 129 replies
    Townhall ^ | Apr 19, 2022 | Katie Pavlich
    The Department of Justice announced Tuesday evening the Biden administration will appeal Monday’s ruling by a federal judge in Florida that struck down mask mandates for air and Amtrak travel. “The Department of Justice and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) disagree with the district court’s decision and will appeal, subject to CDC’s conclusion that the order remains necessary for public health. The Department continues to believe that the order requiring masking in the transportation corridor is a valid exercise of the authority Congress has given CDC to protect the public health. That is an important authority the...
  • Federal judge puts Florida on 10-year probation after ruling voting law disenfranchises Black voters

    04/01/2022 7:28:00 PM PDT · by zeestephen · 28 replies
    Salon (via MSN.com) ^ | 01 April 2022 | Igor Derysh
    U.S. District Judge Mark Walker ruled that portions of the law restricting the use of ballot drop-boxes, assistance for voters, and third-party voter registration drives violated the Voting Rights Act and constitutional protections because they were passed "with the intent to discriminate against Black voters."
  • Breaking: Federal District Court Strikes Down Restrictive Florida Voting Rules, Imposes Requirement That Florida Submit Certain Voting Changes to Court for Preclearance Under Section 3(c) of Voting Rights Act Upon Finding of Intentional Discrimination

    03/31/2022 12:12:38 PM PDT · by fwdude · 69 replies
    Election Law Blog ^ | March 31, 2022 | Rick Hasen
    Quite a blockbuster ruling from the federal district court. The court found that in enacting certain election laws limiting registration outreach and the use of drop boxes, Florida violated the Voting Rights Act. The court also found that Florida acted intentionally discriminating against the state’s black voters. And although the parties hardly briefed it, the Court imposed a very strong remedy of requiring that certain changes in voting rules in Florida be precleared before the court for a period of 10 years under section 3c of the Voting Rights Act.
  • The Supreme Court Drops the Hammer on Democrat Redistricting Games and Sets up a Coming Death Blow, But Chief Justice Roberts Joins the Liberal Side in Dissent

    02/07/2022 8:37:37 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 44 replies
    Red State ^ | 02/07/2022 | Bonchie
    After several days of bad news on the redistricting front, including a bad decision in North Carolina for the GOP-drawn map there, a big win has been delivered to Republicans. The US Supreme Court has ruled 5-4 to halt a lower court order in Alabama that it must redraw its previously passed Congressional map.That means a 6-1 Republican to Democrat map will now go into effect in 2022, and given the makeup of the Supreme Court, there’s no reason to believe it gets struck down at any point past that.BREAKING: By a 5–4 vote, with Roberts joining the liberals in...
  • Supreme Court smacks down Democrat attempt to force Redraw of Alabama Congressional Districts

    02/07/2022 2:46:10 PM PST · by TexasGurl24 · 33 replies
    Supreme Court ^ | 2-7-2022 | SCOTUS
    The application for a stay or injunctive relief presented to JUSTICE THOMAS and by him referred to the Court in No. 21A375 is treated as a jurisdictional statement, and probable jurisdiction is noted. The application for a stay or injunctive relief presented to JUSTICE THOMAS and by him referred to the Court in No. 21A376 is treated as a petition for a writ of certiorari before judgment. Respondents in No. 21A376 do not oppose treating the application as a petition for a writ of certiorari before judgment and do not oppose granting the petition (although they do oppose granting a...
  • Biden Judicial Nominee for 11th Circuit Said ‘Proof of Citizenship’ is ‘Voter Suppression’

    01/02/2022 9:18:25 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 29 replies
    Daily Wire ^ | 01/02/2022 | Gabe Kaminsky
    A left-wing activist with ties to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) nominated by President Joe Biden to be a federal judge has argued photo ID and proof of citizenship constitute “voter suppression.” Nancy Gbana Abudu, the deputy legal director at SPLC, was picked by Biden in December to serve on the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit. The 11th Circuit covers parts of Alabama, Florida, and Georgia. The vacancy came about upon the retirement of Judge Beverly B. Martin — a President Barack Obama appointee. Abudu worked for the ACLU...
  • Obama-Appointed Judge: Florida’s ‘Discriminatory’ Ban on Sanctuary Cities Is Unconstitutional

    09/23/2021 9:49:46 PM PDT · by MarvinStinson · 27 replies
    breitbart ^ | 23 Sep 2021 | JOHN BINDER
    Judge Beth Bloom, appointed by former President Obama, permanently enjoined the law signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis that banned Florida cities and counties from protecting criminal illegal aliens from federal immigration law carried out by the ICE agency. “Defendants are permanently enjoined from enforcing Fla. Stat. § 908.103 and Fla. Stat. § 908.104 because these statutory provisions are unconstitutional,” Bloom wrote. As part of her ruling, Bloom accuses DeSantis and Florida Republican Party Chairman State Sen. Joe Gruters (R) of having “discriminatory motives” in their efforts to pass the sanctuary city ban: Here, prior to SB 168’s enactment, there was...