DeSantis Files Demand For New Judge In Disney Case

Florida Politics reports:

Gov. Ron DeSantis is fighting to get a new judge on the bench for a case stemming from Disney’s federal lawsuit against the Governor. DeSantis filed a motion to disqualify Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Walker, arguing “the Court’s impartiality in this matter might reasonably be questioned.” Walker, whose office declined to comment Friday, has previously ruled against DeSantis, including when he partially blocked the “Stop WOKE Act” last year from taking effect at Florida’s public universities.

Walker has been assigned as the judge overseeing the federal complaint Disney filed against DeSantis, the Governor-appointed Central Florida Tourism Oversight Board and others last month in U.S. District Court. In Friday’s court filing, DeSantis argued the Tallahassee judge twice made comments in unrelated lawsuits where Walker brought up Disney “as an example of state retaliation.” DeSantis argued the judge’s comments “reasonably imply that the Court has prejudged the retaliation question here.”

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Claiming bias, @GovRonDeSantis wants a new judge on the bench for the @Disney federal lawsuit.

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— Peter Schorsch (@PeterSchorschFL) May 20, 2023