Clock running on Gov. DeSantis' next FL Supreme Court appointment; only 6 justices on the bench
With Gov. Ron DeSantis reportedly planning on jumping into the Republican presidential primaries this week, there’s still no word from him about his next appointment to the Florida Supreme Court.
The governor’s press office hasn’t responded yet to a request for information about the timing of a court announcement but, in the past, DeSantis has tended to take his time in assessing judicial nominees.
“It would probably be lost in all the clutter this week. I would wait for clearer air,” Mac Stipanovich, a veteran GOP political consultant who turned independent for loathing of Donald Trump and a critic of DeSantis, told the Phoenix via text message.
The Florida Supreme Court Judicial Nominating Commission sent DeSantis the names of six candidate for the open seat, following a vetting process. They are Michael Thomas McHugh, chief judge of the Twentieth Judicial Circuit in Fort Myers; Joshua Aaron Mize, a judge on the Florida Sixth District Court of Appeal; Thomas Nelson Palermo, a circuit judge in Hillsborough County; Meredith L. Sasso, chief judge of the Sixth District Court of Appeal; Jared Edward Smith, another Sixth District Court of Appeal judge; and John Stargel, yet another judge of the Sixth District Court of Appeal and husband of former state Sen. Kelli Stargel.
That transmission set running a 60-day clock for DeSantis to choose his justice. His deadline is June 30.
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