'Whatever else he accomplishes, and whether or not he has a national political future, GovRonDeSantis has personally shaped Florida’s high court for the next two and perhaps three generations.' -freddoso
Never had Florida's courts received so much attention as when George W. Bush and Al Gore took their arguments to dockets all over the Sunshine State, bickering over butterfly ballots and"pregnant chads" until the U.S. Supreme Court stepped in to settle the matter.One constant amid all that chaos was the Florida Supreme Court.
Unfortunately, there wasn't any quick or obvious solution to the problem of Florida's extreme-left Supreme Court. Anyone wishing to remove one or more justices through the ballot box was bound for disappointment. Since the 1970s, Florida's Supreme Court justices have not been elected but rather appointed and then subjected to retention elections every six years. No justice has ever lost a retention election.
A succession of Republican governors — Jeb Bush, Charlie Crist , and then Rick Scott — chipped away at the Left's dominance over Florida's judiciary. But the progress was extremely slow at the Supreme Court level as the remaining liberal justices clung to power as long as they were allowed by law. But as Scott neared his last days as governor, all three of the remaining Democratic-appointed liberal justices were destined to hit the mandatory retirement age of 70 within a few months after the 2018 election. This made it clear throughout 2018 that the next governor, whoever it was to be, would single-handedly shape the Florida Supreme Court of the future. That task fell to DeSantis when he narrowly won.
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