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Florida Hit With Lawsuit Minutes After Ron DeSantis Signs New Voting Bill
On 5/6/21 at 3:07 PM EDT
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a controversial election reform bill into law on Thursday morning, and minutes later a lawsuit was filed against state Republicans that claims the legislation violates the First and Fourteenth Amendments.
The voting bill adds more limits to voting in Florida similar to legislation in other states, where critics say GOP leadership are pushing an agenda connected to former President Donald Trump s widely disproven claims of election fraud. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks at the opening of the Conservative Political Action Conference at the Hyatt Regency on February 26, in Orlando, Florida. A group of civil rights and voting rights advocates filed a lawsuit after DeSantis signed a new voter law.
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The Daily Beast reported last week that “The FBI, without any court order, sifted through the National Security Agency’s massive troves of foreign communications for information on American “racially motivated violent extremists,” even though the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance (FISA) Court warned the FBI in 2018 that its warrant-free queries” were unconstitutional. The first question that springs to mind in connection with this is: to whom can we turn when those who are supposed to be protecting us have been thoroughly corrupted and weaponized against the American people? And the second question is: Why are “racially motivated violent extremists” so hard to find that the FBI has to do an illegal deep dive into NSA material to find them?
Perhaps the three biggest surprises in Monday’s census reapportionment announcement were heavily Hispanic states missing out on adding seats and all are controlled by Republicans. But it’s not quite so simple.