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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDeSantis' 'Stop Woke Act' faces court test as universities become targets. At issue: free speech
TALLAHASSEE Gov. Ron DeSantis Stop Woke Act is facing its first federal court test after weeks of being celebrated by the political right for restricting race-based teaching and training in schools, universities and workplaces.
But not all conservatives are lined up behind the Republican governor.
A civil liberties organization, which has sided with Florida Republicans in the past on campus speech issues, is among those now condemning DeSantis approach.
Its intended to chill speech, said Adam Steinbaugh, an attorney with the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE). The entire point of the new law is to set out certain categories or concepts that the state disdains and says you cant introduce.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/desantis-stop-woke-act-faces-100107897.html
Initech
(100,081 posts)GenThePerservering
(1,824 posts)still uses the word "woke".
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,841 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Are they that much of a majority in Florida that none of them see what a colossal waste of time and money this is? I'm gratified to see that some people who ordinarily huff DeSantis' farts have spoken out, but why does this charlatan still have a political career?