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Florida: Where Woke Goes to ~~Die~~ Be Upheld Because It’s Just Basic Rights
There really needs to be a severe punishment for passing laws that violate people's rights like this that get overturned. The punishment can be a sliding scale based on how blatant and likely it is to be a violation.
They just keep making the laws and then drag them out in court for years tormenting people and wasting money.
Also maybe any law that even has the slightest remote possibility of being a violation has an automatic stay until resolved and not be at the mercy of the right judge issuing one.
The appropriate punishment should be as simple as getting voted out of office. The fact that people who do this get re-elected is the result of the bitter, hateful, uninformed constituents who want this type of bigoted legislation and wasted resources. It’s sadly what the majority of people living in Florida want.
Getting voted out isn't really enough when you make people suffer for all the years you've remained in office while the law that trampled people's rights was in effect.
That's the absolute bare minimum of what should, but doesn't, happen.
If I try to do something illegal, I get in pretty big trouble. If I work with other people to do it, that's even more trouble for me.
Lawmakers working together to try to break the rules in the Constitution or just acts of Congress could be criminal conspiracy?
Seems pretty dangerous to set as a precedent, but
Throw in some emails showing they know it's going to fail but they're going to do it anyway to get more votes from their base next election before it's overturned and criminal conspiracy doesn't sound so bad.
You could do the same thing with proof you think it's legitimately fine and not get the same punishment.
It's really about the intent, and the sad thing is the intent is usually intentionally violating our rights, so yes, maybe with the right proof it is a criminal conspiracy.
I will no longer be accepting any articles about how Florida's fascism is failing in court without a dollar amount of legal defense fees the Florida taxpayers have paid to date.
AP, other corporate news - get your shit together.
They could've built a sea wall with that money
SCOTUS: so we need a case to neuter the Civil Rights Act of 1964 then. We did it with the voting rights Act didn't we
this post was submitted on 04 Aug 2024
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