Having determined that Republican Governor Ron DeSantis’s staff continues to violate state disclosure laws, a state judge ordered the administration to turn over all records relating to the DeSantis political stunt of flying Venezuela asylum seekers from Texas to Massachusetts using money allocated to transport undocumented immigrants out of Florida, Politico reports.

DeSantis has essentially given the finger to the courts, claiming releasing the records would somehow cripple the governor’s office which is being overwhelmed with open records requests–likely because citizens want documentation of things DeSantis has claimed because he’s a slimy little bastard.  A lawyer for DeSantis says such requests “[weaponize] the public records law so they can jump everyone else,” saying it like public interest in policy matters is a bad thing.

In their continuing effort to throw spaghetti against the wall to see if it sticks, the DeSantis team never cooked the spaghetti:  the judge rejected a claim that his order would cause chaos in the state because it would upset the order in which the administration ignores handles records requests.

The plaintiffs in the case seek the phone and communications records of a number of executive office staffers, including DeSantis’s chief of staff, James Uthmeier, who was directly involved in planning and executing the kidnapping plot by deceiving the asylum seekers.  The victims of the plot have filed a class action suit, and government watchdogs have sued relating to misuse of government funds.