Articles Tagged with Ron DeSantis

Florida Faces Lawsuit Over Anti-China Property Law

May 29, 2023

The ACLU argues that Florida has violated constitutional principles by passing a law that would largely prevent people "domiciled" in China from acquiring real estate in the state.

Tagged: ACLU, discrimination, due process, Equal Protection, federal court, florida, real estate, Ron DeSantis

Challenges Face Florida Law on Content Moderation Decisions by Social Media Companies

June 1, 2021

Tech industry groups argue that the law violates the Constitution by exposing social media companies to potential fines and lawsuits based on their application of content moderation rules.

Tagged: amazon, communications law, constitutional law, Facebook, florida, Google, internet, Ron DeSantis, social media, tech law

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On to the Next Crisis

Cornell professor Joseph Margulies argues that the debt-ceiling “crisis” was manufactured by politicians and the media and that our nation is structurally induced to preserve and enflame such problems rather than solve them.

Lessons Learned When Abolitionists Seek to Save the Lives of Mass Murderers Like Robert Bowers

Amherst professor Austin Sarat points out that when death penalty abolitionists take up the cause of saving the lives of people accused of mass murder, they need also to keep reminding people that, in the many less notorious cases in which the state seeks death as a punishment, the death penalty continues to legitimize vengeance, intensify racial divisions, promise simple solutions to complex problems, and damage our political and legal institutions.