WaPo: “In a second court loss this week for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a federal judge on Thursday squelched one of the governor’s key pieces of legislation by blocking enforcement of a so-called anti-riot law, saying that it chills free speech.
U.S. District Judge Mark Walker wrote that DeSantis’s “new definition of ‘riot’ ” is vague and overbroad and criminalizes “vast swaths of core First Amendment speech.”
DeSantis (R) made passage of the measure his top priority in the 2021 legislative session. He and the Republican-controlled legislature sought the law in response to the massive civil rights protests that took place nationwide in 2020 following the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer.”