Little Ronny Pudding Fingers deliberately targeted Disney for political retaliation. Just ask him

Florida will be paying, and it will be expensive. I hope owning the Libs is rewarding in non-monetary ways.

(DeSantis continuously and loudly testifying against himself) is unusual, says Scott Wilkens, senior counsel at the Knight First Amendment Institute. In such lawsuits, Wilkens notes, you “often have to make inferences” about the motives driving government officials.

That makes DeSantis’s admissions remarkable. “You have pretty clear statements from Governor DeSantis that he is seeking to punish a corporation for its speech,” Wilkens told me. “That’s prohibited by the First Amendment.”