Florida attorney Chris Crowley filed a Cross-Answer/Reply Brief with the Florida Supreme Court earlier this month in his appeal challenging the suspension of his law license for 60 days.
A Referee for the Florida Bar disciplined him for engaging in political speech while he campaigned for the state attorney’s office in Florida’s 20th Judicial Circuit due to referring to his opponent as “corrupt” and “swampy” and for observing that she had “close family ties to the [Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)] terrorist organization.”
Crowley’s opponent, Amira D. Fox, had an uncle who served on the executive committee for the PLO, her father said in an autobiography titled “From Palestine to America.” An investigation found that “Fox campaigned during working hours,” and she admitted, “that she was required to repay $1,458.00 to the State after receiving pay for time exceeding her allowed leave after human resources raised the issue of her overpayment.”
Representing himself in the brief, Crowley (pictured above) argued that the rule he is accused of violating R. Regul. Fl. Bar 4-8.2(a), which is “facially unconstitutional under the First Amendment because it discriminates based on content involving disfavored subjects about specific categories of people.”
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