‘POSITIVELY DYSTOPIAN’ JUDGE

BLOCKS PARTS OF DESANTIS’ SIGNATURE ‘STOP WOKE’ LAW

Jason Parsley

Gov. Ron DeSantis declared earlier this year “Florida is where woke goes to die.”

But so far federal courts don’t agree and have blocked parts of his signature “Stop WOKE” law.

Last week a federal appeals court rejected Florida’s request to enforce the controversial legislation, which means parts of the law will remain blocked while lawsuits make their way through the courts.

Tallahassee U.S. District Judge Mark Walker temporarily blocked some provisions in the law in November calling it “positively dystopian." The law would restrict discussions of race, gender and inequality in public colleges and universities.

The law is known as the so-called Individual Freedom Act, but more commonly known as the Stop Wrongs to Our Kids and Employees (WOKE) Act.

The DeSantis administration appealed the ruling and asked the court to lift the injunction. The motion was denied by the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday.

“We reject this woke ideology. We seek normalcy, not philosophical lunacy. We will not allow reality, facts, and truth to become optional. We will never surrender to the woke mob,” DeSantis said earlier this year.

In August, the American Civil Liberties Union, Legal Defense Fund and a national law firm filed a lawsuit against the law on behalf of a group of students and educators.

“The court’s decision to leave in place the preliminary injunction is a recognition