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This just happened today, and it’s kind of wild.
Florida has a new attorney general, in case you haven’t heard. Our fabulous Ashley Moody was picked by America’s finest governor, Ron DeSantis, to fill the Senate vacancy left when Marco Rubio was nominated for Secretary of State.
DeSantis then chose his chief of staff, a young lawyer and political campaign strategist named James Uthmeier, to become our 39th Attorney general of Florida.
He was sworn in three days ago.
Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday named his former chief of staff, James Uthmeier as Florida’s attorney general, handing the state’s top law enforcement role to a trusted aide who has helped orchestrate and defend some of his most divisive initiatives.
Uthmeier was sworn in Monday during a ceremony in Tallahassee. The 37-year-old becomes one of the youngest state attorneys general and the latest person to benefit from the political shuffle sparked by President Donald Trump ’s drafting of Sunshine State Republicans for his new administration. Uthmeier is poised to spearhead Florida’s legal battles to bolster Trump’s sweeping conservative agenda, at a time when the state’s leaders are eager to pass new laws and challenge legal precedent to demonstrate their allegiance to the president.
Uthmeier succeeds former Attorney General Ashley Moody, whom the governor tapped to fill the U.S. Senate seat of Marco Rubio, Trump’s pick to be U.S. secretary of state.
DeSantis said Uthmeier was a “bulldog in our administration” who will not shy away from a difficult fight. The Republican governor praised Uthmeier’s work in his administration, including fighting federal mandates during the COVID-19 pandemic and combating diversity, equity and inclusion programs in higher education.
Classically, for a DeSantis team member, he got right to work. Today, he — representing the state — along with Stephen Miller’s America First Legal and a few others, announced they’d filed a class action lawsuit against Target Corporation that could pretty much rock that retailer’s world.
YES!
Do you know how many rants I have gone on about public companies sacrificing shareholders for DEI??
«Florida is not afraid of a fight»
We have another champion. https://t.co/C0i2CB8miH— Frog Capital (@FrogNews) February 20, 2025
.Target’s efforts to sexualize children caused its stock price to plummet, harming Florida’s retirement fund and putting the retirements of our teachers and first responders at risk:
It’s not going to do much for any firms who are clinging to their woke notions in hope of currying favor with progressives and the like, particularly if they’re large enough public corporations that their stock is held in public portfolios for state retirement funds.
If you’ll remember back to May of 2023, Target was having a heckuva time taking incoming from outraged parents while causing further and extensive self-induced wounds by doubling down on the indignant virtue-signaling. It started with parents discovering ‘tuck suits’ in the children’s bathing suit section — in case a tiny child had any transgender impulses, they could indulge them at the pool or beach — and posted them on X or TikTok. And then rapidly escalated into a full-blown scandal complete with online pitchforks and torches when it turned out some of their pride designs — again for children — had been designed by a British Satanist.
.Not that they weren’t kinda pissed off at Target already…
…in a “Bud Light meets child groomers” sort of way.
Ahead of June’s so-called “Pride month,” the retail giant Target is displaying some options being referred to as trans-friendly for customers, including a line of swimsuits with “tuck-friendly construction.
