{"id":1935642,"date":"2023-05-22T11:19:21","date_gmt":"2023-05-22T15:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-moves-to-disqualify-judge-in-disney-case-over-alleged-bias\/"},"modified":"2023-05-22T11:21:09","modified_gmt":"2023-05-22T15:21:09","slug":"desantis-moves-to-disqualify-judge-in-disney-case-over-alleged-bias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-moves-to-disqualify-judge-in-disney-case-over-alleged-bias\/","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis seeks to remove biased judge in Disney case."},"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\">18<\/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%2Fdesantis-moves-to-disqualify-judge-in-disney-case-over-alleged-bias%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=1935642&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--><h2>DeSantis Lawyers Request Disqualification of Judge in Disney Dispute<\/h2>\n<h3>Background<\/h3>\n<p>Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, a Republican considering a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rep-matt-gaetz-suggests-potential-desantis-2024-presidential-run\/\" title=\"Rep. Matt Gaetz Suggests Potential DeSantis 2024 Presidential Run\">2024 presidential run<\/a>, is being sued by Walt Disney Co. for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/man-arrested-after-allegedly-targeting-conn-ems-agencies\/\" title=\"Man arrested after allegedly targeting Conn. EMS agencies\">allegedly targeting<\/a> the company&#8217;s leadership&#8217;s political views. Disney claims that DeSantis &#8220;weaponized&#8221; state government in retaliation for the company&#8217;s criticism of a law that banned classroom discussion of sexuality and gender identity with younger children. The company alleges that DeSantis rallied the Republican-controlled legislature to strike back at &#8220;woke Disney&#8221; and seize control of an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/maine-school-board-bars-anti-crt-parent-from-attending-daughters-graduation\/\" title=\"Maine School Board Bars Anti-CRT Parent From Attending Daughter\u2019s Graduation\">administrative district<\/a> that helped Disney develop theme parks and resorts. The district, originally known as Reedy Creek Improvement District, was also named as a defendant.<\/p>\n<h3>The Request<\/h3>\n<p>DeSantis&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-did-dominion-voting-systems-lose-its-lawsuits-against-rudy-giuliani-and-sidney-powell\/\" title=\"FACT CHECK: Did Dominion Voting Systems Lose Its Lawsuits Against Rudy Giuliani And Sidney Powell?\">lawyers filed<\/a> a motion on Friday in Tallahassee, Florida, asking U.S. District Judge Mark Walker to be recused in the case. They argued that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-moves-to-disqualify-judge-in-disney-case-over-alleged-bias\/\" title=\"DeSantis seeks to remove biased judge in Disney case.\">judge demonstrated potential partiality<\/a> while handling separate cases in which he mentioned Disney as an example of state retaliation. DeSantis&#8217;s lawyers said that considering Walker&#8217;s statements, &#8220;the court&#8217;s impartiality in this matter might reasonably be questioned.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Implications<\/h3>\n<p>DeSantis is expected to announce his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination in the coming days. If he does, he could be a potentially tough challenger to front-runner Donald Trump. The eventual Republican nominee is expected to challenge President Joe Biden, a Democrat, in November 2024.<\/p>\n<p><em>Reporting by Jason Lange in Washington; Editing by Matthew Lewis<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Governor Ron DeSantis&#8217; lawyers are seeking the disqualification of a federal judge overseeing a dispute between DeSantis and Walt Disney Co. They question the judge&#8217;s impartiality in the case. DeSantis is being sued for allegedly targeting Disney for its leadership&#8217;s political views. The motion was filed on Friday in Tallahassee. DeSantis is a Republican considering a 2024 presidential run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1935643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[7615,5375,4980,6344,5387,4987,3814],"class_list":["post-1935642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-biased","tag-case","tag-desantis","tag-disney","tag-judge","tag-remove","tag-seeks"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935642","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\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1935642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1935643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1935642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1935642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1935642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}