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“I am humbled that Gov. DeSantis appointed me to the 2nd Judicial Circuit, and I look forward to serving all the residents of this circuit." Neff, who resigns Nov. 3 from the Department of ...
A March 10 letter Brennan Keeler submitted to Gov. Ron DeSantis stated his last day as circuit judge would be March 17. Lawyer resigns circuit judge post 11 weeks after governor appointment to IRC ...
These three appointments were considered to have shifted the court to a more originalist judicial philosophy. [ 177 ] In late 2019, President Donald Trump nominated Justices Lagoa and Luck to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit , thus creating two more vacancies for DeSantis to fill. [ 178 ]
Someone’s ‘activist’ judge is someone else’s brilliant legal mind.
In Jones et al. v. DeSantis, a 2020 voting rights case, Pryor wrote a scathing dissenting opinion. 2018 Florida Amendment 4 permitted former felons to vote; however, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a law that required former felons to pay all legal fees before being eligible to vote again, despite some of them not knowing how much they ...
Under the state constitution, the Governor was allowed up to 60 days to make an appointment from that list of a person constitutionally eligible for the office. Francis's name was on the list. [6] On May 26, 2020, Governor Ron DeSantis announced he was appointing Francis to the Supreme Court of Florida. [7]
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The Supreme Court of Florida is the highest judicial body in the state and sits at the apex of the Florida State Courts System.Its membership consists of seven justices–one of whom serves as Chief Justice–who are appointed by the Governor of Florida to 6-year terms and remain in office if retained in a general election near the end of each term.