Saying that the ad constitutes political speech, “speech at the core of the First Amendment,” a federal judge blocked Republican Florida oversized jockey Ron DeSantis’s effort to ban ads from a private group advocating to pass Amendment 4, which protect abortion rights.
Andrew Pantazi of the Jacksonville Tribune reports the judge upheld Floridians Protecting Freedom right to buy television and radio advertising in the state which says that at any time, Republicans could repeal the ability for a woman to get an abortion. Noting that the “State of Florida opposes Amendment 4 and has launched a taxpayer-funded campaign against it,” adding that DeSantis’s administration has already spent “millions of taxpayer dollars” in its effort to defeat the pro-choice amendment.