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Friday, October 25, 2024
Florida Resignation Question
Regarding attorney John Wilson's resignation from Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis's Department of Health, Howard asks:
What changed--why did his conscience not stop him from attaching his name and sending letters on October 3 but stopped him from doing the identical thing with identical letters on October 10? In what way could the wrongfulness of those letters become apparent in those seven days?
The best answer is from Justice Felix Frankfurter's 1949 dissent in Henslee v. Union Planters National Bank: "Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late."
Posted by Steve Lubet on October 25, 2024 at 06:56 AM | Permalink