Tag Archives: Florida Supreme Court

Thursday Bookshelf: A Most Disorderly Court: Scandal and Reform in the Florida Judiciary

March 26, 2015 · by · in Florida History · 1 Comment

A Most Disorderly Court: Scandal and Reform in the Florida Judiciary (Florida History and Culture) by Martin Dyckman is yet another important time piece by the former St Petersburg Times Associate Editor. Dyckman’s knowledge of the 1970’s Florida political landscape is second to none among reporters and having covered the events closely, he was able to […]

FL Supreme Court does the right thing in redistricting case

January 9, 2014 · by · in Florida Supreme Court, RPOF · 5 Comments

The Florida Supreme Court — sometimes derided as a highly partisan jurisprudential backwater — deserves immense credit for keeping our much-mocked home state mostly decent of late. In December it issued a thoughtful opinion establishing  a proper balance between constitutional principle and the popular will when it took up a pair of redistricting cases known […]