That would get outside the law, outside the Constitution, and was really acting as a super legislature, a council of revision almost, and that was really distorting the constitutional processes here in the state of Florida. When I became governor, three of those justices had mandatory retirement. So my first month as Governor, we appointed three justices to the Supreme Court in Florida. Two of those were later put on the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals by President Trump during his first administration. (01:28–01:34)
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Asserts that three Florida Supreme Court justices retired due to mandatory retirement when DeSantis became governor.
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