Florida

“Neither DeSantis, Passidomo nor Renner immediately responded to requests for comment about the Supreme Court decision, which was condemned by ACLU lawyers who attended the meetings on behalf of the pro-Amendment 4 campaign.

“ACLU of Florida staff attorney Michelle Morton wrote in a statement that the procedure that led to the revised financial statement undermined the democratic process.

“”We are disheartened by the Florida Supreme Court’s refusal to take action against the State’s politicization of these financial impact statements and flagrant bypassing of the judicial safeguards that are supposed to protect the integrity of our electoral process,” Morton wrote in the statement. “The politicization of these financial impact statements erodes public trust in our institutions and threatens the integrity of every future ballot measure.””