David Shribman: Ron DeSantis’ Florida is a laboratory of democracy

Let the states try it

JUPITER, Fla. - Almost a century ago, in a famous Supreme Court dissent, Justice Louis Brandeis provided an enduring definition of the role of states in the American political system.

David Shribman: Ron DeSantis’ Florida is a laboratory of democracy

JUPITER, Fla. — Almost a century ago, in a famous Supreme Court dissent, Justice Louis Brandeis provided an enduring definition of the role...

Shribman: Let the states try it

JUPITER, Fla. — Almost a century ago, in a famous Supreme Court dissent, Justice Louis Brandeis provided an enduring definition of the role of states in the American political system. They were, in a metaphor contained in his 1932 minority opinion in New State Ice Co. vs. Liebmann, laboratories of democracy.