Comments on: Finally, the Florida Supreme Court is changing https://www.overlawyered.com/2019/02/finally-the-florida-supreme-court-is-changing/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Fri, 15 Feb 2019 14:40:55 +0000 hourly 1 By: DocZaius https://www.overlawyered.com/2019/02/finally-the-florida-supreme-court-is-changing/comment-page-1/#comment-352712 Fri, 15 Feb 2019 14:40:55 +0000 https://www.overlawyered.com/?p=72997#comment-352712 As a practitioner in Florida, I hope so. The Court’s refusal to adopt the Daubert standard for expert witness testimony (despite a legislative attempt to force the issue through a change to the evidence code) is merely the latest of a long line of judicial travesties committed by the Court. It’s been very favorable to the plaintiff’s bar for years.

]]> By: SRYS https://www.overlawyered.com/2019/02/finally-the-florida-supreme-court-is-changing/comment-page-1/#comment-352631 Thu, 14 Feb 2019 20:26:59 +0000 https://www.overlawyered.com/?p=72997#comment-352631 Ron DeSantis did relatively well among minorities, compared to the typical Republican. Perhaps thanks to issues like school vouchers. He got 44% of the Hispanic vote, and about 15% of the black vote. Trump got far less. Romney got far fewer black votes: Obama got over 95% of the Florida black vote. Far more black voters support school vouchers than support the typical GOP candidate.

Apparently, Florida voters cared more about substantive issues than whether DeSantis criticized the opposing (African-American) Democratic candidate for governor..

Two of the three people DeSantis appointed to the Florida Supreme Court are Hispanic (Carlos Muniz and Barbara Lagoa). This debunks Will Wilkinson’s bizarre claim on Twitter that DeSantis is an “ethno-nationalist extremist.”

Far from being extreme, DeSantis’s policies appear to be a continuation of Rick Scott’s policies in the realm of economics, crime, civil litigation, and education.

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