{"id":333692,"date":"2026-07-08T22:54:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T22:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/333692\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T22:54:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T22:54:19","slug":"stop-woke-act-blocked-by-federal-appeals-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/333692\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Stop WOKE Act&#8221; blocked by federal appeals court"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"sub-headline watch-truncate\" data-v-7521dc01=\"\">A federal appeals court has permanently blocked Florida\u2019s &#8220;Stop WOKE Act&#8221; in higher education, ruling that the restriction on race and gender lessons violates professors&#8217; free speech rights. FOX 35&#8217;s Garrett Wymer speaks to Greg Greubel, an Attorney for Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression &#8212; which is one of the groups to challenge the act &#8212; about his reaction to the ruling and the precedent set.<\/p>\n<p>Posted\u00a0July 8, 2026 2:55pm EDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A federal appeals court has permanently blocked Florida\u2019s &#8220;Stop WOKE Act&#8221; in higher education, ruling that the restriction&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-333692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333692","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=333692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}