DeSantis has pardoned all Floridians who were arrested/fined for violating local mask mandates

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5. I'm surprised that a governor can interefere with city and county laws.

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The US President can't pardon someone who breaks state law, but apparently a governor can pardon someone who breaks a city or county law. Who knew?

‘Let’s focus on real criminals’: DeSantis pardons remaining local COVID-19 penalties

Mike Carnevale was arrested three times in a two-week period last August for not requiring customers to wear masks at the gym, in defiance of Broward County’s rules to combat COVID-19, a disease caused by a respiratory virus. Prosecutors filed two misdemeanor charges against Mike Carnevale and one misdemeanor charge against Jillian Carnevale and offered to dismiss their case after completing a diversion program, said Paula McMahon, a spokeswoman for the Broward State Attorney’s office.

McMahon said the office dropped the charges after DeSantis announced in May that he was ending local pandemic-related restrictions such as mask mandates.

DeSantis said the county’s rules were “unwarranted, unreasonable restrictions on their business,” and that the Carnevales were punished for exercising “common sense” and refusing to “kowtow” to the county’s regulations.