Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis came to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office headquarters Thursday afternoon to hold a roundtable with Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters and other public officials.
“If there aren’t five votes then shutting down illegal alien birthright citizenship would require an amendment to the Constitution itself, which would be unlikely to get enacted as blue states would almost certainly refuse to ratify it,” DeSantis noted.
The governor will be joined by Sheriff T.K. Waters and Florida Dept. of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles Executive Director Dave Kerner.
The decision to fly flags at full-staff during Trump's inauguration diverges from President Joe Biden's order that flags remain at half-staff for 30 days to honor Carter, who passed away on December 29, 2024. DeSantis' move aligns with at least seven other Republican-led states who have ordered flags be flown at full-staff for Inauguration Day.
DeSantis isn’t necessarily confident that the current court would support his and Trump’s view on birthright citizenship based on his subsequent comments responding to a poster who hoped Sen. Ashley Moody would have a chance to confirm a conservative jurist to replace a “liberal justice.”
Ron DeSantis on Monday issued a weather warning involving the “Gulf of America,” making Florida the first state to officially call the Gulf of Mexico by its new name mandated by President Donald Trump,
Gov. Ron DeSantis issued a state of emergency Monday as a winter weather system approaches the state from the Gulf of Mexico.
Governors have been relegated to the Emancipation Hall overflow viewing space to watch Trump's inauguration, including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
The potential name change is more likely to spread confusion than awe — especially if the same body of water is called different names by different countries.
DeSantis announced he is appointing Ashley Moody to replace Rubio, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for Secretary of State.
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