Bob Iger, the new CEO of Disney, has said that you can't punish a corporation just for speaking its mind. The company is suing Florida governor Ron DeSantis in federal court over what they're describing as an unconstitutional move. Is it a dangerous move to go and sue the governor of the state where you almost certainly have to be located? "I think that there's a little bit of a bluff calling going on here," he says.
Once upon a time, a Magic Kingdom took issue with a ruler’s law and, well, everyone ended up suing each other. The Wall Street Journal’s Robbie Whelan explains the feud between the Walt Disney Company and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
This episode was produced by Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Serena Solin, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey and Michael Raphael, and hosted by Noel King.
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