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The retreat comes five days after the First District Court of Appeal denied Attorney General James Uthmeier’s own emergency bid to block the same ad.

Highlands County judge denies Florida GOP’s effort to ban Hope Florida ads.

The Republican Party of Florida is threatening criminal prosecution of television stations, the Democratic Party and, by the terms of its own legal theory, anyone who repeats a Leon County grand jury’s finding that high-ranking state officials diverted $10 million in the Hope Florida scandal.

Florida taxpayers paid a second law firm $111,387.50 to represent an unidentified person in Gov. Ron DeSantis’ office amid a grand jury investigation into $10 million diverted from the public treasury to Hope Florida that ended up in political committees.

Florida taxpayers on the hook for more than a half-million in legal fees for Hope Florida probe

Appeals court reverses order sealing and destroying records in Ziegler investigation, affirming Florida’s public records law.

For seven months, the finding sat in a sealed envelope at the Leon County Clerk of Court’s office in Tallahassee: a state grand jury had concluded that Florida officials misappropriated $10 million in taxpayer money and funneled it, through a charity tied to First Lady Case DeSantis, into political committees ran by the appointed Attorney General that spent it on an election.

Across Florida, law enforcement officers have been asked to gather names, photographs, addresses and other personal information about people they suspect may be in the country without authorization and upload them to a centralized surveillance database during the course of their routine job duties.

Hidden files show Wyoming entity was backing Jim DeNiro and Kristina Sargent before it incorporated.

An anonymous Wyoming corporation is spending to unseat two Sarasota commissioners. Its beneficiaries are obvious. Its funders are not.