


There is much to be said about Disney’s lawsuit against Ron DeSantis, but there is one entirely predictable bit of bad news here for DeSantis: Yet again, a case filed in the Northern District of Florida against the Florida governor has been immediately assigned, under the auspices of the court’s Chief Judge Mark Walker, to Chief Judge Mark Walker. If that name rings a bell, it’s because Walker has made his name writing for press clippings with what is now a fairly lengthy series of opinions denouncing DeSantis in increasingly florid terms. If you have read a news report any time in the past few years in which a judge had pointed words for DeSantis, there is a high likelihood that it was a Walker opinion. Disney almost certainly aimed to get him on this case.