{"id":118152,"date":"2026-01-14T19:16:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T19:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/118152\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T19:16:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T19:16:21","slug":"desantis-picks-new-florida-supreme-court-justice-who-is-his-sixth-appointee-to-7-member-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/118152\/","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis picks new Florida Supreme Court justice who is his sixth appointee to 7-member court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">SEMINOLE, Fla. (AP) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/ron-desantis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Gov. Ron DeSantis;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Gov. Ron DeSantis<\/a> on Wednesday named to the Florida Supreme Court a state appellate court judge who pledged his allegiance to a legal theory that a law&#8217;s meaning doesn&#8217;t change over time, giving the Republican governor his sixth conservative appointee to the seven-member court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Adam Tanenbaum, a judge on the First District Court of Appeal in Tallahassee, promised to adhere to the principles of \u201coriginalism\u201d during a speech announcing his appointment to Florida&#8217;s highest court at Seminole High School in the St. Petersburg area, where he had graduated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Judges shouldn&#8217;t be afraid to fix, and shouldn&#8217;t have to follow, an \u201cerroneous interpretation of the text,&#8221; said Tanenbaum, who previously was general counsel for the Florida House of Representatives and had served on the legal staff of other state agencies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cSometimes the circumstances require boldness to restore our jurisprudence to its historical roots,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Before announcing the new justice, DeSantis said the Florida Supreme Court should exert its administrative powers over the state&#8217;s legal profession, citing the Texas Supreme Court&#8217;s recent decision to no longer require that Texas law schools be accredited by the American Bar Association.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cI think that there\u2019s room, you know, to be really, really bold,\u201d DeSantis said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEMINOLE, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday named to the Florida Supreme Court a state appellate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59314,28,30,29,17867,59402,412,59400,59401,59399],"class_list":["post-118152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-adam-tanenbaum","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-florida-supreme-court","tag-legal-theory","tag-ron-desantis","tag-seminole-high-school","tag-state-appellate-court-judge","tag-texas-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}