Gov. Ron DeSantis said his focus on the novel coronavirus has kept him from getting homework done to meet a Monday deadline for choosing two new Florida Supreme Court justices.
"I have not had time to really read all the opinions in the way that I think I need to, or the writing samples. So I will most likely delay, under the state of emergency, that deadline, probably push it back to May 1," DeSantis told reporters Thursday afternoon, following the conclusion of the 2020 legislative session.
DeSantis is replacing former justices Barbara Lagoa and Robert Luck, whom he appointed to the Supreme Court not long after he took office in January 2019. But President Donald Trump, a close ally of DeSantis, tapped the pair last year to fill vacancies on the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
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