Florida Supreme Court sides with DeSantis in dispute over state abortion webpage
The Florida Supreme Court denied a petition Thursday morning from a South Florida attorney who alleged that Gov. Ron DeSantis and other state officials interfered with the campaign for the state’s proposed abortion-rights amendment.
The justices unanimously sided with the DeSantis administration in one of the legal challenges that emerged after a state health agency published a webpage alleging that Amendment 4 “threatens women’s safety.”
Petitioner Adam Richardson filed the case Sept. 10, claiming Florida’s top leaders were misusing and abusing their offices in opposition to the amendment, which would protect abortion access until the point of viability. Someone found guilty of the statute Richardson cited in his petition would have committed a criminal misdemeanor of the first degree.
In the opinion, Justice John Couriel wrote that as a private citizen, Richardson couldn’t bring those criminal charges against the defendants — Richardson filed the challenge against DeSantis, Attorney General Ashley Moody, and Jason Weida, secretary of the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration.
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