If this law were on the books during the summer 2020 uprisings, thousands of people in Florida could have been arrested and fined—and if they were ultimately sentenced for rioting, they could have also lost their right to vote. Pierre calls this law “nasty,” in part, because in addition to vastly increasing law enforcement’s power to crack down on civil unrest, she says it’s an obvious attempt to further strip Floridians of their voting rights, a constitutional right that Florida’s leadership has eroded significantly in recent years.

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