Ron DeSantis

He shares our commitment to parental rights, school choice, eliminating radical ideologies from the classroom, and preparing every student for success in the workforce and in life.

I anticipated a lawsuit challenging the designation.

The state has both a right and a responsibility to ensure instruction at these universities is consistent with the underlying mission and to exclude indoctrination and ideological agendas.

Do we really want to have policing of e-bikes, and are you going 10 miles [per hour] or 8 miles [per hour] or whatever and it’s just, I think, it was a little bit of an overreach.

Maybe there’s problems, but what it will lead to is more surveillance of people by law enforcement, and we don’t need that.

This is a clear and unfortunate example of judicial overreach.

State universities are funded by taxpayers and directed by elected officials and their appointees.

SCOTUS validates election practices in places like California that count votes received after an election.

Florida disagreed with what the court was doing and said so explicitly. In May 2023, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) signed House Bill 1297, which authorized the death penalty for aggravated sexual battery of a child under 12.

a totally unaccountable, unappointed, unelected accrediting agency can trump what the state of Florida is doing.

Under this still-developing accreditation agency, universities would no longer need to “bend the knee” to get accredited.

Will need either a constitutional amendment or a future court to overrule this.

Today, we are officially designating terrorist organizations under Florida law. In addition to CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood, we are adding Antifa to the list—along with more than 90 Foreign Terrorist Organizations, including cartels.

Last December, I signed an Executive Order to eliminate the influence of radical terrorist ideologies and the organizations that promote them in Florida. This year, I signed legislation to strengthen those protections and give Florida…

I think you saw how the Biden administration treated some of those groups, but this is something for public scrutiny.

These are common-sense tools. It’s not saying, ‘Oh, some random civic group.’ It’s based on conduct.

That decision in birthright citizenship means, in effect, unless there’s an amendment to the federal Constitution, that you will have birthright citizenship for birth tourists and people coming to the country illegally indefinitely.

The reason is, what the Legislature did wasn’t my proposal.

If you go back to 2019 until now, no question that we are leaving it better than we found it.

It was a casualty of saying, ‘Okay, we’re going to rob Peter to pay Paul,’

But ours was part of a larger vision, and I think it would have really been something that would have been historic.

You have the cap; if it’s above the cap, then you have an ability to seek a claim with, with the state of Florida, and those are, you know, that’s not litigation, you know, that’s that’s a different forum where that is.

I thought the proposal will pass with 60% approval this fall, 'but I don’t know that.'

I know that ours would have passed because we did a lot of research on exactly how to structure it and how to do that.

Safeguarding the electoral process to improve oversight and prevent unlawful influence has been a top priority for my administration since my first days in office.