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Ron DeSantis: “The Florida voters actually voted for term limits for…”

Featuring: Ron DeSantis, Republican | Governor of Florida

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Gov. DeSantis, Anna Paulina Luna press conference

Published | Video Starts at 13:57

It's within our power to do that. We wouldn't be able to do anything, anything more than that without running afoul of major Supreme Court president. Because you know, the, The Florida voters actually voted for term limits for Congress in the early 90s. there was a big push to term limit Congress state by state. So our congressman would have been term limited, our US senators would have been term limited, US Supreme Court in a case called Thornton 5 to 4 said that was not allowed. (13:57–14:04)

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Asserts that Florida voters supported congressional term limits in the early 1990s.

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