{"id":1530858,"date":"2022-06-28T15:02:43","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T19:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1530858"},"modified":"2022-06-28T15:02:50","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T19:02:50","slug":"florida-judge-says-governors-stop-woke-act-can-go-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/florida-judge-says-governors-stop-woke-act-can-go-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Judge Says Governor\u2019s \u2018Stop Woke Act\u2019 Can Go Forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fflorida-judge-says-governors-stop-woke-act-can-go-forward%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1530858&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>PUNTA GORDA, Fla.\u2014Florida Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Walker ruled on June 27 that the state can enforce the \u201cStop Woke Act\u201d\u2014but did not rule on its constitutionality, nor a piece affecting colleges and universities.<\/p>\n<p>The judge, who was appointed by President Barack Obama in 2012 and became chief justice in 2018, ruled that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flsenate.gov\/Session\/Bill\/2022\/7\">HB 7<\/a>\u2014or what Gov. Ron DeSantis branded as the \u201cStop Woke Act\u201d\u2014can move forward and regulate how race can be taught in the classroom and the workplace.<\/p>\n<p>The new law is part of DeSantis\u2019 education agenda that targets ties to Critical Race Theory (CRT) in the state school system as well as corporate training at companies surrounding \u201cwhite privilege.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The governor\u2019s press secretary Christina Pushaw said DeSantis is not \u201cplanning to comment on the ruling,\u201d but she said, \u201cgenerally \u2026 we are confident that this law will ultimately survive all legal challenges and protect Floridians from the harmful effects of discriminatory woke ideology.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In past press conferences DeSantis has said he did not want children to be taught now to \u201chate one another.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>  Parents concerned about Critical Race Theory took home these buttons from a school board activist training Jan. 19 in Sarasota, Florida. (Alexis Spiegelman) <\/p>\n<p>The ruling by Walker gives DeSantis a win, as the judge has frequently ruled against him, allowing the law to move forward\u2014but made it clear that he was not ruling on the constitutionality of the law nor was his decision an endorsement of the law.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis court is not determining whether the challenged regulations are constitutional, morally correct, or good policy,\u201d Walker wrote in\u00a0his ruling. \u201cAnd this order should not be interpreted as endorsing the [legislation] or the related Board of Education regulation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In March, lawmakers passed HB 7 after strong debate on both house floors.<\/p>\n<p>After the governor signed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PUNTA GORDA, Fla.\u2014Florida Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Walker ruled on June 27 that the state can enforce the \u201cStop Woke Act\u201d\u2014but did not rule on its constitutionality, nor a piece affecting colleges and universities. The judge, who was appointed by President Barack Obama in 2012 and became chief justice in 2018, ruled that HB [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":339,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1530858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/339"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1530858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1530858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1530858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1530858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}