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Unraveling the Indictment: Trump Faces Charges Related to Efforts to Overturn the 2020 Election

sedoy-thimblerig August 1, 2023

Former President Trump indicted on charges related to 2020 election. Unravel the key topics surrounding this historic legal battle.

Wife of Florida Republican could face charges because of his own Anti-Drag Bill.

Tampa Tech Wire April 14, 2023

A Florida Republican who has defended his anti-drag legislation in the name of protecting children, couldn’t say whether his wife’s upcoming charity gala — which is billed as featuring “sultry performers” — would flout his own proposed bill to criminalize “adult live performances” in front of kids.

Why do Gov DeSantis & Florida GOP hate the 1st Amendment so much?

Tampa Tech Wire February 23, 2023

Florida GOP State Rep. Alex Andrade proposed a bill that would simplify the process for fellow Republican officials, like Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, to file defamation lawsuits against media and other “critics,” Truthout reports.

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Google Lawsuit in Supreme Court Risks Upending the Internet as We Know It

Tampa Tech Wire February 17, 2023

An upcoming Supreme Court case could answer one of the toughest questions of the internet age: Should online companies be held responsible for promoting harmful speech?

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Florida AG begins legal action against ‘deceptive’ Pinellas hot tub and spa companies

Tampa Tech Wire December 31, 2022

Florida attorney General Ashley Moody took legal action against two hot tub and spa companies in Pinellas County for “deceptive business practices” and for “deceiving customers.”

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U.S. House administration arm bans TikTok on official devices

Tampa Tech Wire December 27, 2022

The popular Chinese video app TikTok has been banned from all U.S. House of Representatives-managed devices, according to the House’s administration arm.

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AARP Poll – DeSantis leads Crist by 3 points

Tampa Tech Wire September 7, 2022

A new AARP poll shows the race between the two men tightening, with DeSantis getting 50% of support from likely voters and Crist at 47%. The margin of error for the poll is 4.4%.

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Governor’s Response To Lawsuit Called ‘Poor Defense’ By State Attorney

Tampa Tech Wire September 7, 2022

On Friday evening, state Solicitor General Henry C. Whitaker filed a 39-page response to Warren’s lawsuit on behalf of DeSantis.

Warren described the pledge circulated by prosecutors around the country as “a value statement,” not a definitive decision on how he might handle any particular case. He also noted that Florida’s new ban on abortions after 15 weeks of gestation has been ruled unconstitutional, and that the state doesn’t even have a law against hormone treatments for transgender minors. Warren’s lawsuit says the suspension was retaliatory after he opposed the governor on a number of issues, including DeSantis’ efforts to deny the restoration of voting rights for felons and create new crimes for public protests in response to the Black Lives Matter movement as well as the new abortion restrictions. “Of course, DeSantis is free to express his views and his disagreements with Warren as often as he likes. Indeed, the Federal Constitution ensures that he is,” the suit says. “DeSantis went too far.” The suit says Warren has an obligation to voters to say where he stands on such issues, and that as a prosecutor, he has the right to decide how the limited resources he has should be used to prosecute crimes. That priority should be on public safety, it said. “The First Amendment protects the right of elected officials to speak out on matters of public controversy, and in fact it does so because it’s so important that the voters who choose these elected officials know where they stand on these issues,” Jean-Jacques Cabou, a lawyer for Warren, said in a phone interview. Warren’s suspension is now an issue in the governor’s race as Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried, the state’s only statewide-elected Democrat, and Democratic U.S. Rep. Charlie Crist enter the final week of the primary to see who will challenge DeSantis. “For this governor to weaponize his office and remove a state attorney — a prosecutor — who has prosecutorial discretion over which cases he brings forward and which he doesn’t, this is the overreaching and overstepping of this governor,” Fried said at a campaign event Tuesday night. “It is the most dangerous thing to our democracy that we have seen.” | Tampa Tech Wire

DeSantis sued by Florida prosecutor he removed over abortion, trans rights

Tampa Tech Wire August 24, 2022

The governor suspended the official this month for signing a national pledge not to prosecute women and doctors for violating state abortion laws or families seeking gender-affirming care for trans youths.