DeSantis Recognizes the Threat Posed by Climate Change, but Hasn’t Embraced Reducing Carbon Emissions
Environmentalists are relieved the Trump-allied Florida governor isn’t a climate denier. Still, they criticize his opposition to renewables and say his climate record is half-baked.
By James Bruggers, Inside Climate News, and Amy Green, WMFE Orlando
April 15, 2021
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks at a new conference in the state held at the Jackson Memorial Hospital on July 13, 2020 in Miami, Florida. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images
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April 15, 2021 - 12:53pm
News broke yesterday that progressive Democrats in the U.S. House and Senate are planning to unveil legislation to expand the U.S. Supreme Court by four seats, increasing the number of Justices to 13.
The reports follow an April 9 executive order from President Biden creating the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States, comprised of a bipartisan group of experts on the Court and the Court reform debate. The group of legal scholars, former judges, lawyers, and judicial reform advocates, chaired by New York University and Yale law professors, is tasked with debating potential Supreme Court reforms such as term limits, the Court s case selection, and the Court s composition and size.
Florida Is Latest Hot Spot for Anti-Protest Legislation
Tear down a Confederate flag in Florida and a protester could be headed to prison. Itâs all part of the same national movement to silence dissent in the wake of the George Floyd uprising.
Martha Asencio-Rhine/Tampa Bay Times via AP
Protesters in St. Petersburg, Florida, demonstrate against police brutality following the police killing of George Floyd, May 30, 2020.
Last summer, after George Floyd died under Derek Chauvinâs knee, protesters in Pensacola, Florida, held a weekâs worth of rallies and sit-ins. On June 6, those protests reached a dramatic peak as protesters linked arms on the Pensacola Bay Bridge on the westernmost edge of the Florida Panhandle. As they blocked traffic, protesters demanded that the cityâs mayor come to the bridge to respond to their policing reform demands. Mayor Grover Robinson soon arrived in a bright-yellow rain jacket.
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