Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis faced a sharp, surprising rebuke from a conservative appeals court on Wednesday, which dealt him a major setback in his quest to banish state prosecutor Andrew Warren from office. In fact, “setback” may be too mild a term: DeSantis got smoked at the court, which effectively accused him of abusing his office to punish Warren on the basis of protected speech. Most surprisingly, the governor’s harshest critic was Judge Kevin Newsom, a staunchly conservative Donald Trump appointee who went out of his way to charge DeSantis with an unconstitutional assault on “representative democracy.”

  • @kylie_kraft
    link
    1078 months ago

    will “spanks” be the new “slams”

    • @LifeInMultipleChoice
      link
      138 months ago

      Yeah, spanks means you get unlimited number of times violating the constitution and the federal/state government has to keep cleaning up your mess using our tax dollars.

  • Drusas
    link
    fedilink
    388 months ago

    Great. Now charge DeSantis with violating Warren’s constitutional rights.

    • @MutilationWave
      link
      88 months ago

      She should spank him so many times. Spank him so hard that Seminole natives are birthed through his big nipple holes.

      • Drusas
        link
        fedilink
        68 months ago

        I’ve just got to say, coming to this comment after having a bunch of genocide apologists piling on me was exactly what I needed. So thank you

  • @Glytch
    link
    158 months ago

    It shouldn’t be surprising that a Trump appointee is doing things to hurt an opponent of Trump

    • TWeaK
      link
      fedilink
      English
      128 months ago

      DeSantis is no longer an opponent of Trump, they both support one another now.

      • @orclev
        link
        78 months ago

        Well, I suppose with his head that far up Trumps backside he would offer some amount of support, but Trump isn’t supporting shit. Well, maybe the spray tan and girdle industry.

        • @[email protected]
          link
          fedilink
          English
          98 months ago

          Anyone who truly believes that Trump will support them is an idiot. Trump cares only for himself.

  • RubberDuck
    link
    48 months ago

    Disney will just use this to point at a “pattern of behavior”