Ron DeSantis Flips Off Judge, Steals School Board Salaries In Mask Ban F***tussle

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Florida's governor has his eyes firmly on the White House race in 2024, and he's not deviating one inch from the GOP base's anti-vax, anti-mask dogma. Ol' Ron is not about to let Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley get to the right of him, buddy, so please do not bother him with your whining about the Delta variant, or immunocompromised students, or kids under 12 not being eligible for the vaccine, or massive outbreaks the second Florida's schools opened. Not his problem!

Ron DeSantis does have time to be a petty, lawbreaking dick, though. For that, he's got all the time in the world. So DeSantis told his Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran to dock the pay of school board members who voted to impose a mask mandate in defiance of the governor's executive order blocking them.

"We're going to fight to protect parent's rights to make health care decisions for their children. They know what is best for their children. What's unacceptable is the politicians who have raised their right hands and pledged, under oath, to uphold the Constitution but are not doing so. Simply said, elected officials cannot pick and choose what laws they want to follow," Corcoran said when he announced that the state is withholding the salaries of those board members who voted "aye" in Alachua and Broward Counties.

But wait, you are saying, didn't a judge just order the Florida Department of Education not to enforce DeSantis's mask ban?

You are correct! On Friday, Leon County Circuit Court Judge John Cooper agreed with the plaintiffs — a group of Florida parents — that the mask ban violates the Florida Constitution and Parents' Bill of Rights. Lawyers for the state defendants argued that mask mandates "infringe on the fundamental rights of a parent to direct the upbringing, education, health care, and mental health of his or her minor child" in violation of the statute. But Judge Cooper pointed out that the state disregarded the end of the sentence, which reads: "without demonstrating that such action is reasonable and necessary to achieve a compelling state interest and that such action is narrowly tailored and is not otherwise served by a less restrictive means."

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1. To DeathSentence, there are no parents who want students to

Be protected from unvaccinated and unmasked peers.