Seven Florida Democratic members of Congress said they were deceived and are demanding answers from Gov. Ron DeSantis about the use of small metal cages at the now-closed immigration detention center dubbed Alligator Alcatraz.
In a letter Tuesday addressed to DeSantis, the lawmakers requested that the state provide a list of all records and evidence related to the controversial detention center and asked whether Attorney General James Uthmeier — who came up with the idea to erect the facility in the middle of the Everglades — had assessed the state’s potential civil liability over its treatment of detainees.
It’s really bad, bad enough to go to prison for, so let’s not let go of it.
I love that DeSantis’ end-of-term timing is terrible. He doesn’t have any Senate seats to run for, and Trump dislikes him, so there is nowhere in the administration for him. About the only thing he can do is run for president, and now he will have to run while he is deep into two separate scandals, in an election where everybody is fed up with corruption.