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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Former New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman and former Rep. Christopher Shays (R-Conn.) are among a group of former elected officials and government staff siding with Disney in its battle with Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Whitman and Shays are part of a group that also includes former Minnesota Gov. Arne Carlson and commentator Bill Kristol that filed a legal brief late Wednesday in federal court. The legal brief tears into the moves of the Republican presidential candidate as “anti-democratic” and said that the high-profile lawsuit is a “case that squarely implicates some of the country’s most cherished freedoms.”

Those who signed onto the brief represent “different political parties, different regions of the country” who agree that “no administration should seek to retaliate, legislatively or otherwise, against its constituents simply for expressing a disfavored viewpoint. To do so is anathema to the First Amendment and severely damaging to the political, social and economic fabric of the country.”

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