{"id":750638,"date":"2026-07-08T14:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T14:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/750638\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T14:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T14:25:09","slug":"professor-weighs-in-on-appeals-court-canceling-floridas-stop-woke-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/750638\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor weighs in on appeals court canceling Florida\u2019s \u2018Stop Woke\u2019 law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">An appeals court put a stop to Florida\u2019s \u201cStop Woke\u201d law, which restricted the way lessons on race and gender can be taught in colleges and universities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">The 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled the act violated First Amendment speech rights of professors and called it downright \u201cdystopian.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Dr. Matt Corrigan, a professor at Jacksonville University, joined us on The Morning Show to discuss the ruling, which many say sets a strong precedent that higher education can\u2019t be limited to the whims of politicians.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 kfUEDb copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WJXT News4JAX &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p>About the AuthorBruce Hamilton headshot<a class=\"Link-PukYsz7Y__LinkBase-sc-scvrjz-0 gQZqgJ\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/team\/PACZ7W5PHJGPHOKHBWB2X2LCVM\/\" title=\"View Bruce Hamilton&#039;s full profile\" itemprop=\"url\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bruce Hamilton<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 duhyRF bxSMlJ\">This Emmy Award-winning television, radio and newspaper journalist has anchored The Morning Show for 18 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An appeals court put a stop to Florida\u2019s \u201cStop Woke\u201d law, which restricted the way lessons on race&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":750639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,526,2808,451,21035,3,111,2819,321961,452,453],"class_list":["post-750638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-education","tag-florida","tag-headlines","tag-morning-show","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-ron-desantis","tag-stop-woke","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=750638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/750639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}