A proposed law would force bloggers who write about Gov. Ron DeSantis and other elected officials to register with a state office and file monthly reports or face fines of $25 per day. The bill was filed in by Senator Jason Brodeur, a Republican.

  • @atomicfurball@lemmy.ml
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    71 year ago

    There needs to be legal consequences for politicians who introduce blatantly unconstitutional bills. They know it is unconstitutional, but they don’t care because there are zero consequences for violating the constitution. Just like with police, they don’t care about reform, because they never face any consequences. This needs to stop. People need to start going to jail for shit like this.

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      1 year ago

      Legality is politics as well and a large portion of voters want this, so legal consequences would be useless I think.

      • @atomicfurball@lemmy.ml
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        31 year ago

        The constitutionality has already been determined by the courts. You can’t register journalism. National Association of Broadcasters v. FCC (1991) SCOTUS has already ruled on this. It is blatantly unconstitutional and they know it. There needs to be jailtime when politicians do things like this.

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            41 year ago

            I don’t really know. But something needs to change. Our system is broken on a fundamental level. There is very little accountability for those who are in the system. Police get slaps on the wrist when they outright murder people. Illegal detentions almost never result in anything because they are so commonplace. Judges rubber stamp lawsuits in the favor of police giving qualified immunity to every cop for everything. Judges have absolute immunity for actions taken from the bench, so you can’t sue a judge when they break the law. District Attorneys bully people into accepting plea agreements even though they are innocent by threatening insane jailtime you go to trial and lose. Juries take the word of police like it is gospel truth from heaven, and will convict you just because you are black. The FBI and related agencies are worse.

            realistically, I don’t see anything less than civil war fixing it at this point. And that kind of scares me.

  • SudoDnfDashY
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    1 year ago

    As a Floridian, it’s hard to put into words how much of a disaster Ron Desantis is. Most people here in the south of the state bar some snowbird cities hate the guy, and he’s gotten away with far too many blatantly unconstitutional laws.