Florida Supreme Court

The Florida Supreme Court unanimously rejected arguments raised by Morris, who was convicted in the murders of Tampa officers David Curtis and Jeffrey Kocab during a 2010 traffic stop.

The advocacy group All for Transportation worked to get the amendment on the November 2018 ballot. It passed with 57% of the vote.

The report was issued by a grand jury impaneled in 2019 at the request of Gov. Ron DeSantis, a year after the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High.

Amendment 3, which would open Florida's primaries, receives bipartisan opposition.

With millions of votes already cast in the November general election, Secretary of State Laurel Lee late Tuesday asked the Florida Supreme Court to reject a last-minute attempt to kill a proposed constitutional amendment that would overhaul the state’s primary-election system.

Gov. Ron DeSantis nominated Renatha Francis, but she was declared ineligible in Septemer because at the time of her appointment she had not been a member of the Florida Bar for at least 10 years.

The Florida Supreme Court made the unusual move of hearing more arguments in a challenge to a law aimed at implementing a constitutional amendment that broadly legalized medical marijuana.

A retired Florida Supreme Court chief justice says President Donald Trump’s threat not to accept the outcome of the election is a grave and real threat to democracy.

Gov. Ron DeSantis has nominated Jamie Grosshans to the Florida Supreme Court after the high court sided with a Democratic lawmaker and nullified the governor’s previous appointment.

The Court unanimously ruled Friday that Judge Renatha Francis is constitutionally ineligible to serve as a justice because she hasn't been a member of the Florida Bar for at least 10 years.

Renatha Francis would be the first Caribbean-American on the court.

Justices on Tuesday rejected a rehearing but unanimously granted a request to revise a complaint against the governor and gave DeSantis until Wednesday to respond.