'Strict Power Grab': DeSantis Signs Restrictive FL Voter Law As Repubs Align With Trump’s ‘Big Lie’

As expected, on Thursday, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed the controversial elections bill SB90.

The purpose of the Republican-backed bill is to impose regulations on ballot drop boxes, restrict third-party voter registration organizations, and place new voting rules by mail.

The Governor banned all media from attending the bill signing except for Fox News.

During a press conference in Panama City Beach, DeSantis was asked why he barred all other media outlets.

The new law goes into effect immediately but will face heavy opposition in court.

Moments after DeSantis signed SB90 on Fox, the League of Women Voters of Florida filed a 69-page lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Tallahassee.

The federal suit claims the bill's provisions make it harder for Floridians to cast ballots "with a disproportionate impact on elderly voters, voters with disabilities, students, and communities of color."

More than 20 local and national groups have threatened to file lawsuits over the contentious bill.

Black Voters Matter co-founder Cliff Albright spoke with Roland Martin about Republicans "strict power grab" during Thursday's edition of #RMU.

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[gregorybranch]

This governor forgets that the former president told his followers to vote twice!

[TheBaller]

This guy is not even himself as a man. From the voice inflections to hand movements he wants to be 45 so bad. Talk about being a chump when you not even man enough to rely on your own identity

[renzo]

The optics here literally tell the story

[ronalddelorme]

I can’t stand the media they never ask any follow up question that makes sense. What’s the point of being media.

[Rhythmicons]

There should be a legitimate standard that one has to cross before passing laws. Like evidence, for instance.

[shirleywilliams]

Notice The Back Drop Here! Very Colorful & Representative Of Florida Right?

[td]

Look who's standing behind him during his speech. Too much dang mayonnaise!

[adonali]

Marcus Garvey’s (#35) THE DON’T’S
The following is a list of things, most of which have been discussed, that the Afrikan Master Student MUST AVOID AT ALL COST

#1. DON’T allow SUPERFICIALITIES to keep You from Your People. (graduate vs. undergraduate, athlete vs. non-althete, professional vs. non-professional, middle class vs. lower class, north vs south, east vs west, Man vs. Woman, science vs. liberal arts, Democrat vs. Republican, Greek vs. non-Greek, Caribbean vs United States of Amerika).

#2. DON’T allow Yourself to develop an ELITIST MENTALITY.

#3 DON’T allow the Enemy(European Colonist) to DIVIDE and CONQUER You.

#4. DON’T allow the Enemy(European Colonist) to PICK and CHOOSE Your Leaders.
#5. DON’T become a SLAVE to Money or Position.
#6. DON’T allow the Enemy(European Colonist) or Yourselves to USE, ABUSE, or MISTREAT You or Your People.
#7. DON’T allow the Enemy(European Colonist) to SET Your Standards goals or Objectives.
#8. DON’T allow the Enemy(European Colonist) to DEFINE and SELECT Your Ideology(Highest Values).
#9. DON’T become a SLAVE to Material Things.
#10. DON’T allow the Enemy(European Colonist) or Yourselves to DRUG or LURE You to Sleep(cousin of death).
#11. DON’T allow the Enemy(European Colonist) or Yourselves to DEMEAN or DEHUMANIZE Your Heritage.
#12. DON’T ACCEPT Something simply because the Enemy(European Colonist) says You SHOULD.
#13. DON”T allow the Enemy(European Colonist) to DEFINE and REPRESENT Your Interest.
#14. DON’T work AGAINST Your People.
#15. DON’T MISTREAT Your Brother’s and Sister’s(People). #16. DON’T promote VALUES and PRACTICES that are ANTI-Afrikan
#17. DON’T choose INDIVIDUALISM over Peoplehood and Community.

#18. DON’T DISCUSS Family Problems in Public or with the Enemy(European Colonist).

#19. DON’T celebrate EUROPEAN COLONIST HOLIDAY’S.

#20. DON’T allow the Enemy(European Colonist) to DICTATE Your Methods for Struggle.

#21. DON’T support things that DISRUPT Unity, Organization, and Peoplehood.
#22. DON’T allow Yourself to become APATHETIC, APOLITICAL, PASSIVE or PESSIMISTIC.

#23. DON’T act on EMOTION.

#24. DON’T allow the Enemy(European Colonist) to DISARM You.

#25. DON’T do things that IMPEDE(Jeopardize) the struggle.

#26. DON’T REJECT Values, Lifestyles, and Traditions that Make Your Culture Unique.

#27. DON’T SUPPORT Artist, Businesses, Politicians, Organizations, or Institutions that EXPLOIT the Afrkan Community in this Country or Abroad.

#28. DON’T BETRAY Your Brother’s and Sister’s(People). #29. DON’T practice INEQUALITY, SEXISM, or CLASSISM.

#30. DON’T PATRONIZE Corporations, Institutions, or Organizations that VIOLATE Afrikan Intersest.

#31. DON’T do the DIRTY WORK of the Enemy (European Colonist).

#32. DON’T run from ADVERSITY.

#33. DON’T be AFRAID to Fight Back.

#34. DON’T DEFEAT Yourself or Your People before the Battle even begins.

#35. DON’T EXPLOIT Your People.

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[seanthomas]

I'm suspicious of greek political origins because all future leaders went to ancient Egypt and Alexandria egypt for learning just like other countries go to Europe and america now...they probably knew more than we think in african regions.

[denisebell]

DeSantis Not Thinking Florida Senior Citizens !

[MrMetro-mtqv]

If they attempt to run this guy in 2024, he will make everyone forget how bad Trump was.

[declaytor]

Every Roland Martin argument ever: "blah blah racism blah blah Jim Crow blah blah HBCUs"