Is Florida’s rapid-fire smackdown of Disney even legal?

“Disney obviously has no right to have a business improvement district, but to take away something like that based on speech, that strikes me as highly likely to be unconstitutional,” said Daniel Greenwood, a law professor at Hofstra University in New York who specializes in corporate speech…

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Adam Winkler, a University of California, Los Angeles professor who has written a book on corporate civil rights, said he expects Disney to raise the First Amendment in any lawsuits.

“The Supreme Court has said the government cannot take special benefits away for improper reasons,” he said, adding that this new law would be like prohibiting people from receiving public assistance checks if they dislike Donald Trump…

“When the three branches of government aren’t separate, that’s a constitutional breach,” Marsh added. “As someone who studies the Constitution, I think it’s really being assaulted from a lot of angles.”

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