A federal appeals court has blocked the higher education portion of Florida’s Stop WOKE Act, ruling 2-1 that the law violates the First Amendment by restricting what professors can say in public university classrooms. The opinion came from a judge President Trump appointed during his first term, and it landed squarely on one of Gov. Ron DeSantis’s signature policy achievements.
Judge Britt Grant, writing for the majority on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, did not hold back. The ruling, reported by the Daily Caller News Foundation, stemmed from two lawsuits filed by professors, students, and a student group who argued the 2022 law imposed unconstitutional censorship on classroom instruction.
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