{"id":1973540,"date":"2023-07-14T19:25:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T23:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ron-desantis-sued-by-aclu-for-not-holding-a-special-election\/"},"modified":"2023-07-14T19:25:45","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T23:25:45","slug":"ron-desantis-sued-by-aclu-for-not-holding-a-special-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ron-desantis-sued-by-aclu-for-not-holding-a-special-election\/","title":{"rendered":"ACLU sues DeSantis over special election neglect."},"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\">14<\/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%2Fron-desantis-sued-by-aclu-for-not-holding-a-special-election%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=1973540&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>The ACLU Files Lawsuit Against Gov. Ron DeSantis for Failing to Schedule Special Election<\/h2>\n<p>The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has taken legal action against Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) for his failure to arrange a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/latest-poll-majority-of-americans-want-republican-party-to-control-the-senate-sean-hannity\/\" title=\"LATEST POLL: Majority of Americans Want Republican Party to Control the Senate | Sean Hannity\">special election<\/a> to fill the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-biden-to-diversify-usps-board-cement-democrats-oversight-of-agency\/\" title=\"Report: Biden To \u2018Diversify\u2019 USPS Board, \u2018Cement Democrats\u2019 Oversight\u2019 Of Agency\">vacant seat<\/a> of former state Rep. Juan Alfonso Fernandez-Barquin, a Republican.<\/p>\n<p>In June, DeSantis appointed Fernandez-Barquin as the clerk of the court and comptroller for Miami-Dade County, leaving the 118th House District seat unoccupied.<\/p>\n<h3>ACLU Highlights Governor&#8217;s Inaction<\/h3>\n<p>The ACLU&#8217;s lawsuit emphasizes that the seat has remained vacant for over 30 days, stating, &#8220;The governor&#8217;s inexplicable period of inaction is longer than any of his predecessors in known history.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to the complaint, between 1999 and 2020, there were 65 vacancies in Florida that took an average of 7.6 days for the governor to call for a special election. The complaint also points out that DeSantis has promptly called for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/georgia-republican-state-senators-propose-bills-to-end-no-excuse-mail-voting-automatic-registration\/\" title=\"Georgia Republican State Senators Propose Bills to End No-excuse Mail Voting, Automatic Registration\">special elections<\/a> in the past.<\/p>\n<p>Florida&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ron-desantis-sued-by-aclu-for-not-holding-a-special-election\/\" title=\"ACLU sues DeSantis over special election neglect.\">interim committee weeks<\/a> for the 2024 legislative session are set to begin in September, which means that the residents of the 118th House District could potentially be without representation during that period, as noted by the ACLU.<\/p>\n<p>The ACLU accuses DeSantis of attempting to deny the residents of House District 118 their constitutionally protected voice in the Capitol, stating that he has failed to fulfill his duty as required by law.<\/p>\n<h3>The Lawsuit&#8217;s Demands<\/h3>\n<p>The lawsuit requests that the Leon County Circuit Court issue a writ of mandamus, compelling DeSantis to schedule a special election. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/impossible-gop-picked-up-seats-in-house-picked-up-state-legislatures-picked-up-governorship-held-the-senate-but-sniffy-joe-won-not-a-chance\/\" title=\"IMPOSSIBLE: GOP Picked Up Seats in House, Picked Up State Legislatures, Picked Up Governorship, Held the Senate -- But Sniffy Joe Won?... NOT A CHANCE\">general election<\/a> is proposed to be held &#8220;no later than November 21, 2023.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As of now, neither the ACLU nor DeSantis has responded to requests for comment from the Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click here to read more from the Washington Examiner.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ACLU sues Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) for failing to arrange a special election to replace ex-Rep. Juan Alfonso Fernandez-Barquin. DeSantis appointed Fernandez-Barquin as Miami-Dade County&#8217;s clerk of the court and comptroller, vacating the 118th House District seat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1973541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1973540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"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\/1973540","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1973540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1973540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1973541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1973540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1973540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1973540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}