{"id":75837,"date":"2026-07-07T14:55:42","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T19:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/07\/us-appeals-court-strikes-down-key-part-of-florida-law-restricting-campus-race-and-gender-discussions\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T14:55:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T19:55:42","slug":"us-appeals-court-strikes-down-key-part-of-florida-law-restricting-campus-race-and-gender-discussions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/07\/us-appeals-court-strikes-down-key-part-of-florida-law-restricting-campus-race-and-gender-discussions\/","title":{"rendered":"US appeals court strikes down key part of Florida law restricting campus race and gender discussions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ron DeSantis\u2019s Stop Woke Act suffers another legal setback, with the state accused of \u2018puppeteering\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A federal appeals panel struck down a significant chunk of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/ron-desantis\">Ron DeSantis<\/a>\u2019s so-called <a href=\"https:\/\/scholarship.law.ufl.edu\/facultypub\/1200\/\">Stop Woke Act<\/a> on Tuesday, delivering another rebuff to the Republican Florida governor\u2019s efforts to stifle free speech in higher education.<\/p>\n<p>In a scathing order, judges of the 11th circuit court of appeal said by a 2-1 majority that the higher education component of the law \u2013 which prevented college and university professors teaching or sharing thoughts on concepts of race and gender \u2013 breached the free expression rights guaranteed under the US constitution\u2019s first amendment.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jul\/07\/stop-woke-act-appeal-florida-desantis\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ron DeSantis\u2019s Stop Woke Act suffers another legal setback, with the state accused of \u2018puppeteering\u2019 Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email A federal appeals panel struck down a significant chunk of Ron DeSantis\u2019s so-called Stop Woke Act on Tuesday, delivering another rebuff to the Republican Florida governor\u2019s efforts to stifle free speech &#8230; <a title=\"US appeals court strikes down key part of Florida law restricting campus race and gender discussions\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/07\/us-appeals-court-strikes-down-key-part-of-florida-law-restricting-campus-race-and-gender-discussions\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US appeals court strikes down key part of Florida law restricting campus race and gender discussions\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}