Florida, Man

A local judge in Florida, Jared Smith was turfed out by voters for denying permission for an abortion for a girl because he though that her grades were not high enough (As Anna Russel would say, "I'm not making this up, you know.").

In response to this, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis appointed him to the appellate court, because there no opportunity to make the world a worse place that he will miss.

Now, the Governor is considering appointing this legal lunatic to the Florida Supreme Court, because he wants to own a (another?) Supreme Court Judge:

A Florida judge rejected by voters after denying a teenage girl an abortion citing her poor school grades is in line for a seat on the state supreme court as the Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, continues to turn the bench to the right.

Jared Smith will be interviewed alongside 14 others next month by a nominating commission that will make recommendations to DeSantis, who last week signed a six-week abortion ban into law.

The governor appointed Smith to the newly established sixth district court of appeal in December, four months after voters in Hillsborough county ousted him from the circuit court following his controversial ruling.

Smith said the 17-year-old was unfit to obtain an abortion as he questioned her “overall intelligence, emotional development and stability”. The decision was overturned by a three-member appeals court that said Smith abused his judicial discretion.

DeSantis’s decision to disregard that rebuke was the second time he had looked favorably on Smith, having first appointed him to the circuit court in 2019.

The Florida supreme court seat opened up last month when the long-serving justice Ricky Polston announced he was standing down. Filling the vacancy will mean DeSantis will have picked five of the court’s seven members, a potentially crucial factor for the future of abortion laws in the state.

Seriously, I'm thinking that Ronda is a secret plot by Donald Trump to make him look good in comparison.

If Trump is a dumpster fire, Ron DeSantis is the Centralia, Pennsylvania mine fire.