DeSantis Cares More About Popularity Than The First Amendment

Ron DeSantis has no problem ignoring the First Amendment if it might help him in the polls. After how poorly the Disney strategy has worked for him — sitting 46 points behind Trump — he’s shifting targets. Free speech on campus is a rallying cry among right-wingers! Stanford’s decision to throw its students under the bus for Kyle Duncan and Judge Ho’s boycotting of potential clerks garnered headlines! So now DeSantis is making sure that Palestinians won’t be able to share their hot takes.

From Reuters:

Florida’s university system, working with Governor Ron DeSantis, ordered colleges on Tuesday to shut down a pro-Palestinian student organization, marking the first U.S. state to outlaw the group whose national leadership backed Hamas’ attack on Israel.

The State University System of Florida said chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) had to be dismantled as part of a “crack down” in the Republican-led state on campus demonstrations that provide “harmful support for terrorist groups.”