certainly not be able to impose his extreme far-right agenda on america as a whole. if the polls are to be believed, because despite the governor s braggadocious promise and his pre-campaign book which attempts to pitch his far-right agenda in the sunshine state as a blueprint for the rest of the country, it turns out most voters do not want to make america florida. since desantis took office back in 2019, he has lurched florida to the far-right, with a series of political stunts, yes, stunts, designed explicitly to appeal to republican presidential primary voters, likely aforementioned stunt with the fake fraud allegations, or the time he callously shipped a bunch of migrants to martha s vineyard under false pretenses, a scheme that may still result in legal consequences. but desantis s central governing ideology, such as it exists, has been his so-called war on woke. there is simply no conservative culture war that the governor will not take the bait on, from the ridiculous backlash
lost soul, bad guy. chuck rosenberg, i go back to everything i ve ever seen regarding proceedings before federal judges in federal courts. you know, we talk about equal justice under the law. yes, donald trump has actually been indicted for trying to overthrow a presidential election, but, chuck, again, in my limited experience, you know, being around this a good bit, i ve just never known of a federal judge that would allow a defendant to publicly threaten a prosecutor, stir up death threats against a prosecutor, let alone question the integrity of the court itself, the federal judge itself. i m wondering, equal justice under the law, are we carving out a special exception for
other criminal defendants, but trump is actually different than other criminal defendants in this one regard. he will have to have a first amendment right on the campaign trail. he can criticize mike pence. but what he can t do and where that line exists is he can t intimidate him from testifying. ultimately, he can t taint the jury pool. that line is not a black and white one. it will be more art than science disterning it. so this is a complicated problem. don t want to pretend it is easier than it is. the court haas an obligation to ensure the government is treated fairly, as is the defendant. right. david, one thing that lawyers from l.a. to alabama, all across america, understand and learn in their first constitutional law class is that the first amendment, obviously, is an extraordinary it provides an extraordinarily powerful right to free speech.
what do we always say, son? liberty mutual customizes your car insurance. so you only pay for what you need. that s my boy. stay off the freeways! only pay for what you need. liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. welcome back. time now for a look at the morning papers. we begin in florida, where the citrus county chronicle report on the former governor saying sunshine members filing a brief with the court against disney s lawsuit with ron desantis. desantis appointed a board to oversee disney after the company objected to his so-called don t say gay law. now, a group of government officials are telling the court, quote, the path the governor has
the crime done? was there serious wrongdoing here, or is this a case of going after somebody who really didn t do anything or a technical violation or stretching the law way beyond where it should be? no. there was very grave wrongdoing here, and i think it is reasonable to say that it falls within the obstruction of a proceeding. that s not weaponization. that s enforcement of the law. i am concerned that in a second term, he will be off the hook. there will be no way of controlling him, and he will also surround himself with yes men. david, it is important that barr is talking this way. i don t know if trump supporters completely tune him out now, but, you know, you look at most of the stuff that s on fox news and it s false equivalencies, false moral equivalencies and false legal equivalencies. the wall street journal editorial page which had been