A federal appeals panel struck down a significant chunk of Ron DeSantis’s so-called Stop Woke Act on Tuesday, delivering another rebuff to the Republican Florida governor’s efforts to stifle free speech in higher education.
In a scathing order, judges of the 11th circuit court of appeal said by a 2-1 majority that the higher education component of the law – which prevented college and university professors teaching or sharing thoughts on concepts of race and gender – breached the free expression rights guaranteed under the US constitution’s first amendment. I
t accused the state of “puppeteering”: making the educators their mouthpieces by controlling what they can say or teach...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/07/stop-woke-act-appeal-florida-desantis
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