Florida voters ousted Judge Jared Smith from office, DeSantis just appointed him to a higher court

[In It to Win It]

Mark Joseph Stern
@mjs_DC

Florida voters ousted Judge Jared Smith from office after he refused to let a minor terminate her pregnancy, deeming her too immature to get an abortion.

In response, Ron DeSantis just appointed Smith to an even higher court. https://tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/elections/2022/08/25/did-anti-abortion-ruling-lead-to-sitting-hillsborough-county-judges-defeat/

Jim Rosica
@JimRosicaFL

Inbox: @GovRonDeSantis made three appointments to the state's new 6th District Court of Appeal.

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[dchill]

1. Florida voters are not important to Gov DeSantis.

[Baitball Blogger]

5. +1

[SunSeeker]

2. K & R for exposure.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

3. Floridians voted to let felons vote also. DeSantis worked to block the will of the people on that

one also

[Cha]

4. Fucker.

[Skittles]

6. WTF is wrong with the people of Florida

do they not see what the fuck DeSantis is all about or do they know and APPROVE

[Mad_Machine76]

10. Enough of them just voted to re-elect him for another 4 years

At least of the ones who could............

[Skittles]

12. I know, but WHY

the man is absolutely fucking VILE

[Mad_Machine76]

16. His is and I have no clue

I guess he just hates on the right people and his fans will cheer him on no matter what he does. Not to mention that the state is heavily voter suppressed and disenfranchised.

[Celerity]

7. Elections have consequences, and FL, on balance, seems to love some Rethug shitbaggery.

I feel for the Dems there, but I do not see the situation changing for a long time. More and more buybull banging christofash white nationalist Rethugs are moving in, and the Latino population is becoming more RW (and not just Cubans, who only make up around a quarter of the Latino FL population).

The FL Democratic party infrastructure is pretty shambolic as well, from most informed accounts I have seen. We are all witnessing the shitholing of a huge state, in real time. DeathSentence et al. are a fucking pox.

[republianmushroom]

8. DeSantis may need to do some judge shopping and he wants several to pick from

and being a republicans he wants several judges to pick from.
He did see how trump did it.

[MagickMuffin]

9. Floridians voted to keep Ron, so the will of the people and all that

That’s seems to be the fall back answer to people voting for fascist. I’m in Texas and we get it!

[11 Bravo]

11. Authoritarian GOP shitweasel once again ignores the will of the people?

Who could have ever guessed?

[bluestarone]

13. The question is

What the fuck does it take to get these fucking CULTISTS see through the RETHUGLICON FOG!

[Samrob]

14. Not honoring the will of the people, your constituents ought to get you fired next time around. nt

[Rhiannon12866]

15. So much for supporting the wishes of the voters of Florida!