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Broward’s unique bail reform policy avoids political pitfalls as it nears first anniversary
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Bail reform came to Broward last year crafted to allow poor people arrested for misdemeanors and non-violent third-degree felonies, but who pose no risk to the public, to get out of jail without having to post any cash. -
Fox TV host plays softball with Ron DeSantis about force-feedings of Gitmo detainees
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Responding for the first time to allegations that as a U.S Navy JAG officer in 2006 he oversaw the brutal forced feedings of Guantanamo detainees, Gov. Ron DeSantis sought to play down his involvement in an interview broadcast Thursday. -
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DeSantis uses case of Parkland killer Cruz to play politics with the death penalty
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
With the Donald Dillbeck execution on Feb. 23, another one set for April 12 and many more inmates he can condemn at will, Gov. Ron DeSantis is using his death warrant power to brand himself as Florida’s chief avenger. -
State senator who backed flying confederate battle flag tweets he’s not ‘confederate sympathizer’
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Oops. That’s the key takeaway from Republican State Sen. Jay Collins’ chief of staff’s tweet Wednesday declaring that his boss’s proposed legislation to authorize the confederate battle flag to be flown on state and local government buildings in Florida was merely a blunder. -
A move to resurrect the confederate flag across Florida quickly fizzles in public sunlight
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Eight years after the Florida senate stripped the confederate battle flag from that chamber’s official seal, a state senator tried briefly Tuesday to ensure the confederate flag could fly at government buildings across the state.
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