Across all the US media this morning..
Mother Jones reports
In June, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a new law requiring state universities to conduct a survey of “viewpoint diversity” and “intellectual freedom” on their campuses. It was an effort, he explained at the time, to prevent them from becoming “hotbeds of stale ideology.” But in the governor’s push there is at least one diverse viewpoint that appears to be less than welcome: Criticizing Ron DeSantis.
On Friday, the New York Times reported on a stunning new allegation from by three University of Florida professors. In a court filing, they claim that their university has barred them from acting as expert witnesses in a legal challenge to the state’s restrictive new voting laws. The law, drafted with the help of the state GOP and signed by DeSantis in May, makes it more difficult to vote by mail and places new restrictions on ballot dropboxes; in 2020, Democrats were far more likely than Republicans to vote by mail in Florida.
Per the Times, “University officials told the three that because the school was a state institution, participating in a lawsuit against the state ‘is adverse to U.F.’s interests’ and could not be permitted.”
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University of Florida Bars Professors From Testifying Against Ron DeSantis’ Voting Law
