Eric Giunta column
Eric Giunta is a member of the Florida Bar and Chief Legal Correspondent at Sunshine State News. Born in Chicago and raised in South Florida, he graduated from Florida State University College of Law, where he served as president of that school's chapter of the nation's premier fellowship of conservative and libertarian law students.
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May 15, 2013
Several Florida activists claim they or their organizations are victims of the IRS' gone-wild, anti-conservative harassment campaign – citing everything . . .
Eric Giunta
April 30, 2013
Corporations close to the Obama administration have implemented policies targeting gun sellers in the months since the Sandy Hook shooting, leading some to . . .
Eric Giunta
March 30, 2013
Advocates for medical marijuana legalization are seeing their legislative ambitions go up in smoke, as the fourth week of Florida's 2013 session drew to a . . .
Eric Giunta
March 25, 2013
Gov. Rick Scott's former top attorney has quietly withdrawn his application for a seat on Florida's 1st District Court of Appeal, but only after two . . .
Eric Giunta
March 20, 2013
Court documents obtained by Sunshine State News show that top Florida Democrats were involved in just the sort of activity they are accusing Republicans of: . . .
Eric Giunta
March 15, 2013
As the Florida Supreme Court prepares to hear at least one challenge to local government implementation of red-light cameras, the Orlando Sentinel reports . . .
Eric Giunta
March 14, 2013
One of Florida's most conservative U.S. congressmen is leading the charge against what he says are billions of dollars wasted by the federal government to . . .
Eric Giunta
March 8, 2013
In the wake of Gov. Rick Scott's appointment of Alan Forst to the Florida 4th District Court of Appeal, Sunshine State News has discovered that state Supreme . . .
Eric Giunta
February 7, 2013
The Florida Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in a case that could have ramifications for the tens of thousands of drivers who are subjected to . . .
Eric Giunta
February 3, 2013
The Obama administration announced Friday a proposal to broaden religious conscientious objections to the President's controversial contraception . . .
Eric Giunta
January 28, 2013
A bill that would greatly restrict the staging of protests at funerals has passed through the first of several hurdles in the state Senate committee process . . .
Eric Giunta
January 9, 2013
The weeks following historic electoral gains by the Ron Paul "liberty movement" in the Miami-Dade County GOP have not been smooth ones for new chairman . . .
Eric Giunta
December 21, 2012
Republican grassroots activists, inspired by the message of former presidential candidate Ron Paul, failed to gain control of the Miami-Dade County GOP . . .
Eric Giunta
December 19, 2012
Two of Florida's most prominent progressive organizations have issued a warning to the Sunshine State's freshmen legislators: ignore and disassociate . . .
Eric Giunta
December 5, 2012
An otherwise dry hour-long series of presentations on the federal health-care law ended on a colorful note Monday, as some three dozen tea-party activists, . . .
George LeMieux: I would have beat Nelson, I endorse Lenny Curry, and you haven't seen the last of me
Eric Giunta
November 30, 2012
Former U.S. Sen. George LeMieux spoke to Sunshine State News Wednesday, his first interview since Election Day less than a month ago.
The Florida . . .
Eric Giunta
November 27, 2012
Encouraged by anti-prohibition ballot victories in three states Nov. 6, marijuana legalization advocates in the Sunshine State are bringing the fight for . . .
Eric Giunta
November 14, 2012
Each of the ten public Florida colleges and universities evaluated by a major civil liberties organization has "some policies that could ban or excessively . . .
Eric Giunta
November 9, 2012
While some are arguing Tuesday night's election returns signaled a repudiation of the conservative "tea party" wave that swept the nation in the years . . .
Eric Giunta
November 8, 2012
Florida's final tally isn't in yet, and Romney has lost the presidential election with or without its coveted electoral votes, but spokespersons for the . . .
Eric Giunta
October 31, 2012
In an exclusive interview with Sunshine State News, Professor Elizabeth Price Foley of Florida International University College of Law condemns what she . . .
Eric Giunta
October 27, 2012
Bernie DeCastro is an ex-convict running for sheriff of Marion County on an obscure third-party ticket; and he might win.
That's because the redeemed . . .
Eric Giunta
October 25, 2012
Palm Beach County state attorney candidate Dave Aronberg — known a year ago as "Florida's drug czar" — received almost $14,000 in campaign . . .
Eric Giunta
October 21, 2012
Three Florida Supreme Court justices are up for retention on the November ballot, and Sunshine State News is the only source that is examining their . . .
Eric Giunta
October 18, 2012
With just over three weeks until the Nov. 6 elections, one set of races attracting much state and even national attention is the merit-retention contests of . . .
Eric Giunta
October 13, 2012
Amid reports that Palm Beach County Elections Supervisor Susan Bucher sent out some 60,000 faulty absentee ballots, there's one question no one else seems . . .
Eric Giunta
October 8, 2012
The school billed it as "a forum to educate voters about merit retention and the process by which judges in Florida are selected," but Friday's forum at FSU . . .
Eric Giunta
October 4, 2012
While prominent lawyers and interest groups around Florida are vociferously condemning organized opposition to the November retention of three of the . . .
Eric Giunta
October 2, 2012
On Monday, U.S. congressional candidate Keith Fitzgerald, D-Sarasota, announced the firing of new communications director Ana Maria Rosato barely 90 minutes . . .
Eric Giunta
September 15, 2012
America is shocked and righteously indignant over the murder of United States ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens, and three other Americans on Tuesday . . .
Eric Giunta
September 7, 2012
As two Florida Democratic state representatives contest their recent primary election defeats through the courts, a political consultant from one of the . . .
Eric Giunta
August 30, 2012
"I think I'm the next president of the United States, based on the 1.9 million people who have taken the test at isidewith.com. And interestingly, I side with . . .
Eric Giunta
August 26, 2012
"The Constitution does not need to be scrapped; it needs to be abided by," thundered Jim Clymer, Constitution Party vice presidential candidate and former . . .
Eric Giunta
August 24, 2012
By now we've all heard the story: A candidate for major federal office has put his foot in his mouth, making a comment that exploited centuries of hateful . . .
Eric Giunta
August 22, 2012
As Republican speakers and delegates gear up for their national convention in Tampa, Aug. 27-30, the party's libertarian faction is getting ready to put its own . . .
Eric Giunta
August 20, 2012
North Central Florida's new Republican congressional nominee is a self-styled "conservative Christian Republican with a libertarian slant" who plans to take . . .
Eric Giunta
August 15, 2012
Cries of glee and exultation from much of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's center-right base met the former Massachusetts governor's . . .
