But after that case and an appeal were dismissed earlier this year, the governor’s lawyers have recently urged an appeals court to sanction Uhlfelder. As the coronavirus has ravaged Florida, Uhlfelder is hardly the only person to criticize DeSantis’s handling of the pandemic. Early in the pandemic, Uhlfelder made headlines as he pressed the case, while cloaked in black on the sand, that DeSantis needed to act faster to protect Florida. (DeSantis would later institute a temporary “safer at home” order, although beaches closed only at the behest of local governments.) Uhlfelder said regardless of the decision, he viewed the governor’s move in support of sanctions as an attempt to chill opposition to his pandemic response.

Source: Washington Post December 15, 2020 12:23 UTC