Constitutional LawFeaturedFlorida LawFlorida StatutesPresidential Election
October 4, 2023By Mark Salnick
On May 24, 2023, a few months after winning re-election in the 2022 midterm elections, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis formally announced he was running for president via a Twitter Spaces event co-hosted by then-CEO Elon Musk.[i] While this announcement itself may not have come as a surprise to most Floridians, it raises both […]
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Constitutional LawDeath PenaltyFeaturedFlorida Law
April 7, 2023By Mark Salnick
In the United States, 27 states recognize the death penalty as a potential punishment for those convicted of a capital crime. Of those 27 states, Florida has recently been at the forefront of amending the requirements to sentence a defendant to death. Florida’s proposal to implement a supermajority standard for issuing a death sentence should […]
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Constitutional LawFeaturedFlorida Law
November 14, 2022By Mark Salnick
When Governor Ron DeSantis signed House Bill 1557, the Parental Rights in Education Bill (widely known to the public as the “Don’t Say Gay Bill”), into law, he was met with a flurry of legal challenges pertaining to the contents of the bill’s provisions. The Parental Rights in Education Bill has been wrongfully misrepresented to […]
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