A federal judge has ruled that Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) violated the Constitution last year when he ordered drug testing for state government workers.

A Democratic senator urged President Barack Obama not to renominate the top U.S. commodities regulator unless he quickly implements trading curbs intended to dampen speculation and reduce fuel costs for Americans.

The House Ethics Committee announced on Friday that it was extending its reviews of two members of Congress who have been accused in separate cases of improprieties involving their outside business interests.

Gwen Ifill on standing your ground, talking about the recent shooting of Trayvon Martin and the absense of consistency in Mitt Romney.

A Florida Republican waging a primary bid against Rep. Cliff Stearns said the FBI is investigating the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee chairman for allegedly using a middle man to try to bribe him out of the primary.

Transcript of CNN Republican Debate 1/26/2012

Republican Debate Transcript, Tampa, Florida, January 2012

Blog on Marco Rubio for VP 2012

Blog about Rubio's opposition to the Dream Act and when his parents entered the US

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) responded to a Washington Post report alleging that he embellished details about his parents' emigration from Cuba on "The O'Reilly Factor" on Fox News Monday night.

Sen. Marco Rubio frequently repeated his family’s history that had special resonance in South Florida. He was the “son of exiles,” he told audiences. But a review of documents reveals that the Florida Republican’s account embellishes the facts.

A new poll suggests that Florida Republicans should be very disappointed that Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) isn’t running for Senate.Like President Obama, Sen. Bill Nelson (D) gets mediocre approval ratings, but he’s benefiting from a weak field of challengers.

Opinion article by Bill Nelson, detailing his ideas for cutting for of the national debt, including cutting all corporate loop holes.

New polls show Rick Scott may be most unpopular Governor in the U.S. How will this affect the elections.

If elected, one of Rick Scott's first acts as governor of Florida could very well be to choose someone whose job it will be to prosecute him.

Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum just announced that he would not challenge a court decision throwing out the state's 33-year-old gay adoption ban.

An interesting way to ask a question on gay rights: Is homosexuality immoral?

Florida's cruel and discriminatory law banning gays from adopting children is hanging by a thread. It's up to Attorney General Bill McCollum to wield the scissors. In a wise and just ruling issued last month, the 3rd District Court of Appeal in Miami upheld a 2008 opinion from a Miami-Dade circuit judge who found the 1977 law unconstitutional. A three-judge panel from the appeal court said there was no evidence that gays were less fit than heterosexuals to be parents. The court also pointed out the absurd inconsistency o...

Florida won't be appealing a court ruling that found the state's ban on adoptions by gay men and lesbians unconstitutional.

Martin Gill ties the shoelace of his six-year-old son in a park in North Miami on September 22, 2010. A Florida appeals court ruled last month that a state ban on adoption by gay men and lesbians was unconstitutional.