A group of South Florida leftists have set up shop in one of the most conservative parts of Florida to launch attacks on a legal system they believe is “hostile” to liberal causes.
The conservative outlet, Campus Reform, reported last week that Latina & Latino Critical Legal Theory Inc., known by the shorthand LatCrit, purchased a 10-acre site near Ocala that will become the “hub” of the group’s “educational, research, advocacy and activism to remedy the imbalance and deficiencies in the current legal system.”
LatCrit argued the hub is necessary, even though college campuses, even in Florida, are thoroughly dominated and managed by liberals.
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“Having an independent physical base has become critical as universities and law schools increasingly are even less equipped to focus on legal problems of the poor and the ‘outsiders’ of society due to increasing budgetary, bureaucratic and political constraints,” the group said on its website.
“After sixteen years of laying the groundwork for this bricks-and-mortar move, this ‘Living Justice Center’ located in the middle of the state will enable LatCrits to take their teaching, learning, and writing projects on behalf of the underprivileged to the next level of sustainability and effectiveness.”
The property is known as Campo Sano. It sits in Marion County, a place where Republicans outnumber Democrats by a 2-1 margin and which gave Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis 69% of the vote in 2022 and former President Donald Trump 62% in 2020.
Campus Reform noted that LatCrit is an “association of legal scholars and activists committed to applying principles derived from ‘feminist legal theory, critical race theory, critical race feminism … and queer theory’ to legal issues both in the United States and around the world.”
The group’s founder, Frank Valdes, a law professor at the University of Miami, has said LatCri needed a “brick-and-mortar base” to serve as a “community campus that would be autonomous and would be there to serve the needs of anti-subordination scholars and activists.”
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Last month, at an event in California, Steve Bender, a LatCrit leader and law professor at Seattle University, said, “We need to explore the possibilities of Campo Sano as a critical physical haven in a state – Florida – that’s otherwise hostile. Sort of the epitome of hostility to critical knowledge.”
Campus Reform pointed out that LatCrit has owned the site since 2011 and acquired it with the help of the university.
It only now seems to be budding with the “Living Justice Center” becoming a destination for left-wing advocacy.
Campus Reform offered an example of that, citing a comment by another LatCrit professor Margaret Montoya, who spoke at that California event in February.
Montoya was trying to encourage students to join LatCrit and take advantage of Campo Sano. They were needed to fight supposed injustice.
“The lowest 50 percent now own 3.3 percent of the nation’s wealth,” Montoya argued. “And you know what, slavery and racism are the chief reasons. This is acknowledged by virtually all economists now.”
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