A federal judge in Florida on Friday permanently blocked a key part of Governor Ron DeSantis’s anti-woke legislation that would have banned diversity- and race-related training in private workplaces.

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    3 months ago

    It’s amazing to me that someone who has the wherewithal to rise to the highest offices in the land, can also be such a blubbering insecure weak little bitch that they need to legislate against having to hear about reality. But then again, Donald fucking Trump became president and might do so again. I guess the highest offices in the land are actually pretty easy to get to after all 🤷‍

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    3 months ago

    A federal Mandate should be put in place where questionable laws which possibly violate the Constitution are not enforced until they are found legitimate.

    He’s like a monkey throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks.

    This seems to be a national problem

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      I like the intent behind that, but it would also be scary to give the courts even more power at this time in history.

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          Yeah but the dynamic would probably change quite a bit if they were gatekeepers up front and new laws had to avoid a presidential veto plus a court veto. And it would let the courts act on their own rather then simply deciding cases that end up on their docket.

          Like I said, the idea sounds like a nice thing. In just think we’ve seen enough to know that the execution would be a nightmare.

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            It would probably take a constitutional amendment to make questionably unconstitutional law something to be reviewed before it being implemented. Also include a timeline which it must be complete.

            I know none of this will happen but I can dream

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    3 months ago

    “permanent” here means it will hold until the inevitable appeal to scRotus

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      Lets see what Biden’s plan to deal with them is. He’s promised to do some kind of SCOTUS reform act before the end of his term.

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        3 months ago

        the current composition of congress makes any significant changes impossible to achieve.

        best that can happen is introduction of such legislation, and their subsequent defeat or burial, this session will call-out republicans who block it–and then they get booted by voters in november in favor of those who will seek meaningful changes next year.