re: DeSantis takes away speech rights in America to protect

I don’t think you can pass something called “a clarification.” It’s either a bill, passed successfully through the legislature, and then signed into law by the Governor, or it’s not. The efforts to conceal or divert attention away from the nature of this new legislation signed into law is itself what makes people think it might be a little shady. It’s actually not “shady,” it’s a straightforward carve out to the prior law that required someone currently holding office in Florida to resign from that office to submit a letter of resignation before qualifying to run for the new political office. Full stop.

The carve out now makes an exception specifically in the event that the new office being sought is President or Vice President. And apparently the position of the Republican leadership in the state legislature is that it’s in no way a special carve out for Desantis specifically. Of course that’s going to draw attention. And that’s not me suggesting anything one way or another, just simply “clarifying” the matter.