The "Partners" statue sits in front of Cinderella's Castle at Magic Kingdom on Wednesday, May 1, 2019 at Disney World in Orlando, Florida. - Allie Goulding/Tampa Bay Times/TNS
Florida Gov. Ronald Dion DeSantis — who styles himself a friend of freedom, including the right of corporations to express their political beliefs — has cast those principles into a Space Mountain black hole. Because Disney had the temerity to disagree with DeSantis politically, it became the target of his withering government attack. The compelling complaint filed Wednesday in federal court lays this bare, asserting: “It is a clear violation of Disney’s federal constitutional rights — under the Contracts Clause, the Takings Clause, the Due Process Clause and the First Amendment — for the Stat...
