If you turned on cable TV news Monday, chances are good that you caught Corey Lewandowski fibbing that he doesn't have a clue why Donald Trump fired him as his campaign manager. Of course he knows.
Has anyone even read the bill that had Democrats staging a sit-in on the floor of Congress?
"No district court of the United States or court of appeals of the United States shall have jurisdiction to consider the lawfulness or constitutionality of this section ..."
It gets worse.
There might not have been much cursing or broken clubs, but there was one way in which Florida politics this week resembled a golf game: Everyone seemed to want a mulligan.
U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio asked for a do-over on his pledge not to run for re-election, three months after Republican voters rejected his presidential bid that prompted the guarantee in the first place. It was a decision that rippled through a campaign season that was beginning in earnest, and candidates at several levels were left scrambling to manage the fallout before Friday's qualifying deadline.
Jacksonville Rep. Charles McBurney will not be appointed as judge of Florida’s 4th Judicial Circuit, and the National Rifle Association could have had a big hand in why McBurney wasn’t selected.
Qualifying closed in Florida’s U.S. Senate race on Friday as Marco Rubio gears up to run for a second term.
After announcing on Wednesday that he would run again, Rubio chased out most of the Republican primary field. Congressman David Jolly pulled out last week even before Rubio launched his campaign. On Wednesday, Lt. Gov. Carlos Lopez-Cantera and Congressman Ron DeSantis dropped out of the race. While he said he would stay in regardless of what Rubio did, businessman and Army veteran Todd Wilcox bowed out of the race on Friday.
Eric S. Giunta, chief legal correspondent for Sunshine State News during 2012 and 2013, is now senior law clerk for Chief Judge L. Clayton Roberts of the Florida First District Court of Appeal.
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Recently, League of Women Voters of Florida President Pamela Goodman submitted an article advocating a ban on “assault weapons.” In the article she suggests Florida legislators pass a bill on the first day of session. Even though I will not be in Tallahassee in the coming session, my advice for Florida legislators is not to fall prey to the pandering, anti-gun rhetoric of this partisan organization.
On Friday, businessman and Army veteran Todd Wilcox ended his bid for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate.
