Tag: abortion
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Abortion rights backers take heart from Ohio but Supremes likely won’t let Florida voters decide for themselves in 2024
By Noreen Marcus, FloridaBulldog.org Advocates of a reproductive freedom proposal for the 2024 Florida ballot celebrated this week when Ohio became the seventh state to join an abortion rights backlash after the U.S. Supreme Court reversed Roe v. Wade. On Tuesday, Ohio voters affirmed, by a wide margin, a ballot measure that adds the right…
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Judge who beat DeSantis favorite Jared Smith at the polls singled out for discipline, could be yanked off court
By Noreen Marcus FloridaBulldog.org In Florida, all judicial campaign trash talk is not treated alike. If you blast your opponent and lose the election and you’re Jared Smith, abortion foe, Gov. Ron DeSantis rewards you with a higher position on a new appellate court. Then you’re short-listed for the even more powerful Florida Supreme Court.
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DeSantis foe asks Supreme Court to make sure governor sticks to the Constitution in his next judicial picks
By Noreen Marcus FloridaBulldog.org Gov. Ron DeSantis may be obliged to take direction from the Florida Supreme Court before he names judges to new seats on two state appeals courts.
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Ex-chief justice: Florida’s broad constitutional right to privacy should block abortion ban
By Noreen Marcus FloridaBulldog.org As the Florida Supreme Court waits for draconian abortion restrictions to reach its docket, lawyers are road-testing their arguments for and against the deeply divisive law.
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Florida Chief Justice Muniz’s tour for abortion opponents provokes concerns about court bias at critical moment
By Noreen Marcus FloridaBulldog.org As the raging national debate over abortion was starting to engulf the Florida Supreme Court last January, now-Chief Justice Carlos Muniz personally led a private courthouse tour for an anti-abortion crusader and his supporters.