Judge finalizes ruling upholding school mask mandates; DeSantis appeals order

[Zorro]

Source: Tampa Bay Times

The order, announced Aug. 27 and now final, already is being appealed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

TALLAHASSEE — A court ruling that says Gov. Ron DeSantis and his administration acted “without legal authority” when enforcing a ban against strict mask mandates in schools went into effect Thursday, nearly a week after it was issued. Hours later, DeSantis appealed the order.

In his 37-page ruling, Leon County Circuit Court Judge John C. Cooper said that the governor, the Department of Education and State Board of Education improperly applied the Parents Bill of Rights. He concluded they have no authority to punish school districts that have demonstrated their mask policy “is reasonable” and achieves “a compelling state interest.”

“By passing the Parents’ Bill of Rights, the Florida Legislature necessarily recognized the importance of parental rights. But it also recognized that parents’ rights are not immune to some reasonable limitation depending upon safety and reasonableness and compelling state need regarding health care or condition of the child,” Cooper wrote.

The order, announced Friday, Aug. 27, and now final, set into motion an appeal by DeSantis in the polarizing legal battle taking place in both state and federal court. The governor says he is standing by the individual rights of parents while school district leaders say they are protecting the collective health of school children in the face of the surging delta variant of the coronavirus.

Read more: https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2021/09/02/judge-finalizes-ruling-upholding-school-mask-mandates-state-expected-to-appeal/

[Botany]

1. Why does DeDantis want the disease and deaths to keep spreading?

The man went to Yale and then onto Harvard Law for his J.D. he knows that masks, vaccines,
and social distancing works but he fights the use of those proven actions. Why?

[Fritz Walter]

2. HEY! Look at what I found!

DeSantis is pandering to the former guy's base! For donations and for votes.

[Chainfire]

3. He is cementing his position with the hard-core right in anticipation of a run for the President.

He knows what is best for the people of Florida, but the right thing for Florida is not the expedient thing for DeSantis.

He doesn't give a rat's ass about what the consequences are for the residents of Florida. He knows that to have a shot at the White House, he must have the radicals on his side so he is doing what needs doing to secure their support. He probably feels something like, "They make kids every day, but there is only one President." There is no price the people can pay that would be too high to keep him from his ambition.

He is far more dangerous than Trump because while he is evil to the core he is not a clown or a damn fool.

[lark]

5. His biggest donor owns the patent for monoclonal antibodies.

he wants us sick and dying so tons of doses of these can be used at great profit to the owner and himself as well, you can bet. If we aren't sick, his and his profits decrease and of course that won't be allowed.

[lark]

4. Right wing misogynistic assholes at SCOTUS will uphold it, I'd bet.

Just like they are establishing that women are 2nd class citizens with no rights of our own - except for the rich, who can do anything and everything they want and courts nod yes.