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Florida Supreme Court upholds DeSantis’ suspension of Orlando-area State Attorney Monique Worrell
Worrell responded by saying the court ‘rubber-stamped a political stunt’
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‘Trump-era immigration policies’: Florida Immigrant Coalition slams Biden’s border closure plan
Biden’s executive order would bar migrants from seeking asylum at the U.S.–Mexico border after entries exceed a certain point
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Cannabis is about to be ‘re-scheduled’ by feds. What does that mean for Florida’s push for recreational marijuana?
Critics say that decision can’t obscure the concerns that have surfaced in recent years stemming from its high potency
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Florida Gov. DeSantis blasts Columbia University officials for canceling commencement amid pro-Palestinian protests
Police arrested pro-Palestinian protesters on Florida campuses in recent weeks
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Florida Republican Party officially opposes ballot initiative to legalize recreational marijuana
DeSantis has repeatedly said legalizing recreational cannabis will result in the entire state to ‘start to smell like marijuana’
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Florida Democrats now running billboards to recruit candidates for state office
The party is looking for candidates to compete against Republicans in four state Senate district races and three congressional contests
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‘Florida has a chance to make history’: Only three states have passed recreational weed on the ballot by more than 60 percent
Florida advocacy groups prepare to crank up their cannabis campaigns in the upcoming months
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Frost, Soto back new program for taxpayers to file directly with the IRS for free
Dems are promoting the pilot program in Florida, but 13 Republican attorneys general across the U.S. have opposed the program
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Biden campaign wants Floridians to see a new attack ad featuring Trump’s call for national abortion ban
The Joe Biden reelection campaign has launched a new 30-second television ad starting Tuesday attacking Donald Trump’s stance on reproductive rights
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Florida Supreme Court approves recreational pot amendment for November ballot
The Florida Supreme Court is the final decision-maker determining whether a proposed constitutional amendment makes it on the ballot
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Tampa Bay Rep. Kathy Castor disagrees with Florida Supreme Court’s ‘stalling tactics’ in abortion rights decision
Congresswoman Castor said it’s disturbing that the court has been so slow in announcing both abortion decisions
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Over 20 AGs from around country, except for Florida’s Ashley Moody, call on Congress to change hemp definition
The letter calls on Congress to address the ‘glaring vagueness’ created in the 2018 farm bill
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Concern about artificial intelligence in political ads grows ahead of election year in Florida
Florida legislators recently approved a bill that requires a disclaimer to be included in political ads that use generative AI
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Orlando’s Maxwell Frost among Florida congressmen to vote ‘no’ on measure banning TikTok
‘This legislation is an infringement of our constitutional right to freedom of speech,’ Frost said
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Florida lawmakers support new sanctions on minors possessing guns
Rouson says that it’s important to hold minors accountable – without marking them with a felony that would follow them the rest of their lives
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Florida’s civilian police oversight boards are in jeopardy and could be dissolved
Reports found that cities with citizen review boards experience about a 15% reduction in the total Black arrest rates
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Florida lawmakers push to remove language saying slaves benefitted from slavery from state curriculum
‘It was torture. Young people need to know that was not true.’
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Florida lawmakers push for fixes to a signature law on affordable housing
The bill passed unanimously in the committee, and now moves to the Fiscal Policy Committee before hitting the Senate floor
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Women in Florida pay significantly more than men for car insurance — and only one state has a bigger gap
Just another reminder that the Equal Rights Amendment never got ratified
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Florida Democratic Party Chair Manny Diaz denies that Florida is now a red state and resigns
There is no immediate front-runner to succeed Diaz.