Ron DeSantis’s Stop Woke Act suffers another legal setback, with the state accused of ‘puppeteering’
A federal appeals panel struck down a significant chunk of Ron DeSantis’s so-called Stop Woke Act on Tuesday, delivering another rebuff to the Republican Florida governor’s efforts to stifle free speech in higher education.
In a scathing order, judges of the 11th circuit court of appeal said by a 2-1 majority that the higher education component of the law – which prevented college and university professors teaching or sharing thoughts on concepts of race and gender – breached the free expression rights guaranteed under the US constitution’s first amendment.
Continue reading...This article was originally published by The Guardian and written by Richard Luscombe in Miami.
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