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Florida
The year since Election Day 2025
GovBrief tagged 130 stories to Florida since Election Day 2025. Here are 20 worth remembering, 10 of them from Florida.
36days until Election Day, Nov. 3In Florida
10 storiesJustice Department moves to end more than 50 school desegregation cases from the 1960s and 1970s, calling them "onerous and outdated."
Over 75% of division staff gone
Florida GOP state House nominee Marshall Rawson marched in the 2017 Charlottesville rally carrying a neo-Confederate group's flag, video surfaced by Talking Points Memo shows.
Heavily favored to win in November
DHS watchdog finds Alligator Alcatraz held 79 detainees in 18-square-foot metal cages, calling it "unprecedented" at ICE sites, then closed every recommendation because the camp shut in June.
28 square feet each, 75 feet required
Leaked group chat among top Florida International University campus Republican leaders contains the n-word over 400 times, calls for violence against Black people, and Nazi references.
FIU confirms criminal investigation underway
Trump's motorcade stops at industrial park stone supplier that furnished Mar-a-Lago's ballroom in 2004 so he can personally select marble for $400 million White House addition.
56% of Americans oppose project
Justice Department subpoenas witnesses before a grand jury in Judge Aileen Cannon's district, escalating its year-long effort to prove the intelligence community conspired against Trump.
Judge who dismissed his classified documents case
Florida AG Uthmeier demands six years of New York Times board records, wielding the state pension's 160,000 shares and threatening suit within two weeks.
Third legal broadside in six days
ICE writes state law "shall not apply" into detention contracts for four states one day after a judge ruled a contract cannot override state oversight.
3,500 detainee complaints, 10 refused inspections
HHS Secretary Kennedy overrules his own department's medical reviewer to keep a symptom-free cruise passenger locked in a federal quarantine facility against her doctors' recommendation.
She alleges retaliation for criticizing HHS
Florida sues OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, the first state to do so, alleging ChatGPT aided in planning multiple murders and endangers children.
Follows a separate criminal probe
Across the country
6 storiesTrump family crypto venture World Liberty Financial applies for national banking charter, months after Trump pardoned Binance founder whose exchange bought $2 billion in its stablecoin.
Family stablecoin worth $3.4 billion
Commerce Department imposes export controls on Anthropic's two newest AI models, forcing the company to shut them off for all users days after launch.
Verbal evidence of narrow jailbreak
DOJ creates $1.776 billion fund to pay anyone "weaponized" by past administrations as Trump drops his $10 billion IRS suit.
Drawn from federal Judgment Fund
Trump nominates Project 2025 workforce-section coauthor Dennis Kirk as Interior's inspector general, the office fielding five congressional requests including the Reflecting Pool review.
Watchdog seat vacant 18 months
Trump took in nearly $1.2 billion from his crypto ventures last year, a federal ethics filing shows, locking in profits as ordinary investors lost most of what they paid.
Souvenir coins now $1.68, down from $74
British police arrest five men suspected of preparing a terrorist act near RAF Fairford, the base US bombers use to strike Iran, evacuating 85 homes.
Revolutionary Guard called it "legitimate target"
Fighting back
3 storiesFederal judge blocks DeSantis executive order designating CAIR a terrorist organization, ruling no governor can unilaterally label a Muslim civil rights group.
Never designated terrorist by any federal agency
Florida's transportation department orders license plate cameras off state roads within 30 days citing "surveillance schemes," as 7 cities and counties halt Flock networks.
Jacksonville, Volusia sheriffs drop cameras countywide
Thirty-five former judges ask court to reopen Trump's IRS case and investigate his settlement as fraud on the court.
$1.8 billion settlement hidden from the judge
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