You might have missed it, but Florida won a solid victory for election integrity yesterday in the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals

The left tried to strike down Florida's election integrity law, SB 90

They already lost on appeal, and now rehearing en banc has been denied Just to quickly explain:

When a case is first appealed to a federal circuit court, it is heard by a three-judge panel

The party that loses that appeal can ask the entire circuit court to rehear the case "en banc," with all active judges on the circuit presiding

Earlier today we highlighted some individual prosecution decisions made by the now-suspended State Attorney Monique Worrell.

Now, let’s take a broader look at @GovRonDeSantis’ executive order to see how Worrell was derelict in her duty.

We’ll start with gun crime. Florida has mandatory minimum sentences for gun crimes.

The Osceola County Sheriff’s Office referred 58 non-homicide Robbery with a Firearm cases to Worrell’s office in 2021 and 2022.

As of May 2023, only one mandatory minimum sentence had been imposed in any of those cases.

Today, @GovRonDeSantis suspended State Attorney Monique Worrell for dereliction of duty and incompetence.

Here are some examples of her policies or practices in action. Daton Viel was arrested in March 2023 for sexual battery on a minor, as well as Lewd and Lascivious Molestation.

That arrest was made while Viel was on probation for another offense. Viel was still let out on bond.

This past weekend, Viel shot two Orlando Police Officers.

Oppenheimer was a great movie…for two hours

How do you take a movie about something as consequential as the Manhattan Project and make it about things as picayune and trivial as the denial of a security clearance and the failed confirmation of a minor cabinet secretary Yes I watched the movie and understood the plot, I’m saying that portion of the story was simply uninteresting

https://twitter.com/Chris9902051/status/1682996108119736320

Trump has put out a slew of very good scripted policy videos

But I won't take him seriously until he actually demonstrates that he *cares* about policy more than Maggie Haberman's approval All the scripted policy videos prove is that he has some good, based policy advisers

But he had good, based policy advisers in his first term who found themselves fired within a year

Meanwhile Kim Kardashian waltzed into the White House and got criminal justice reform through

In case it wasn't obvious: Trump might not be "the establishment," but he has built an establishment around him that behaves almost exactly the way the old establishment did There's a reason that the vast majority of Trump's endorsements are coming from sitting legislators - and particularly House members

They are the people he can threaten with primary challenges

Trump 2024's current strategy is supposedly to try to bully DeSantis out of declaring

It won't work for a few reasons

First, every poll shows DeSantis in a solid second, with anywhere from 20-40% of the vote. No other candidate gets more than single digit support. Second, that base of support puts DeSantis in a much stronger position than he had in his first runs for Congress and for Governor.

If you read his book, he didn't come into politics with a strong network or institutional support.

New rule: if you did not end up holding the office that you ran for, then you didn't win the election for that office "Trump won."

No, he didn't. You can argue that he got cheated. But he lost.

I know I’m behind on this but she’s completely right

https://twitter.com/bonethirty/status/1636261276312809474

You’ll improve your cooking dramatically if you just use enough salt and make sure there’s something acidic to balance things out

Roger is a among the many pro-Trump commentators spreading this falsehood.

Ron DeSantis is not violating Florida's Resign to Run law - and he couldn't possibly do so before he officially announced his campaign and made the requisite filings in Florida.🧵

https://twitter.com/RogerJStoneJr/status/1636028330423074817

First, let's look at the Resign to Run law.

It requires officeholders who "qualify for federal office" to resign if any part of their terms would run concurrently.

And it mandates that such a resignation occur 10 days before the first day of "qualifying for the office."

For all of Trump’s solid foreign policy rhetoric, he’s still the guy who made John Bolton his National Security Advisor And then, at Bolton, Pence, and Pompeo’s urging, decided to recognize some guy streaming in a Venezuelan basement as the TRUE President of Venezuela

A moment of gratitude

As nasty as the Trump/DeSantis thing has gotten, can anyone articulate any actual policy differences between the two candidates?

They are running on the same stuff: anti-wokeism, nationalism, foreign policy restraint And they are, together, crushing the field

Combined they have something like 75-80% of the primary vote, you can basically guarantee it will be one of those two guys

And whoever wins, the neocon NeverTrump guys aren't coming back

Just this week, Bill Shipley (@shipwreckedcrew) managed to get his J6 client a 14-month sentence when prosecutors were demanding more than five years

He’s handling 29 J6 cases with no promise of getting paid

But that hasn’t stopped @lauraloomer from slandering him Bill is exceedingly experienced and competent

He spent 22 years as a federal prosecutor

And he’s one of the few lawyers with that level of experience handling J6 cases

But of course Laura has vast expertise in federal criminal defense

Here’s a cross-dressing preschool teacher talking about how he wears a skirt in class

He’s not remotely ashamed These kids are 4-5 years old

Yeah, not lawful self-defense

https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1612073242461671424

Deserve’s got nothing to do with it

https://twitter.com/david30674012/status/1612111335806078976

Wesley Hunt's son is in the NICU

He flew back for this vote

@mattgaetz and @laurenboebert had acceded to McCarthy, that's why they voted present

But their egos are too large to just suck it up, end this nonsense, and flip a vote to Kevin

Exceedingly silly

https://twitter.com/RepWesleyHunt/status/1611366597842673664

It's not brave, it's childish

Everyone knows the end result at this point - including Gaetz and Boebert! Present votes were an obvious concession.

I know how hard this may be to believe, folks, but the guy you are looking for is

-ba dum bum-

Kevin McCarthy

https://twitter.com/DC_Draino/status/1611035481189527552

Understand - Democrats have disrespected McCarthy repeatedly over the past two years

One obvious example is when they refused his nominees for the Jan 6 commission and then subpoenaed him

One of the reasons I support McCarthy is that he's been radicalized

This is VERY wishful thinking

As frustrated as the Freedom Caucus is with McCarthy, the bulk of the conference is ten times as frustrated with the Freedom Caucus

https://twitter.com/GavinWax/status/1610400947360104448

Put yourselves in the shoes of some normie Republican representative

You supported McCarthy in the caucus, he won the vote to be majority leader 186-31

McCarthy then made a bunch of concessions on the rules to get the votes of the holdouts

In all seriousness - Fred Upton - one of the 10 Republicans who voted to impeach President Trump - is the most likely person to be Speaker of the House if McCarthy’s bid fails I have it on good authority that @RepDonBacon and other moderate Republicans are talking with Upton to push him has a "compromise" nominee - with the Democrats

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https://twitter.com/TheCStandard/status/1603542383924322307

#NeverMcCarthy reminds me a lot of #NeverTrump

It's this clearly personal, "who cares about the consequences" approach to politics

It's the opposite of wartime conservatism, of knowing what time it is The question for everyone should be "how do we extract maximum value out of the House majority?"

The answer is obviously - investigations, investigations, investigations

Which McCarthy, for his faults, is great on