neither walt disney co dis nor presidential hopeful ron desantis have backed down a bit in their ongoing feud over the latter allegedly pursuing a retaliatory stance against the mouse house what happened a group of former highlevel government officials including governors and lawmakers filed a “friend of the court” brief last week in disneys federal lawsuit against desantis ap reported adding that the group comprised mostly republicans their court filing revealed by opting to do it they wish to demonstrate “how the path the governor has chosen is corrosive to the form of democracy envisioned by the constitution and to reemphasize this courts critical constitutional role in curbing the excesses of governance by retaliation” the group said desantis has followed the autocratic examples of governments in russia and china the florida governors takeover of the disney world governing district was “severely damaging to the political social and economic fabric of the state” they added see also best media diversified stocks why its important the ongoing issue between disney and desantis started when the former opposed the dont say gay law passed by the state which forbids discussions regarding sexual orientation in classes from kindergarten till grade 3 the florida governor did not take kindly to it and clipped the power disney had in governing the district where its orlando theme park is located the governor appointed his nominees to the governing board of the district disney has since then scaled back its investment in the sunshine state and also filed a case against the governors retaliatory tactics both parties have taken a hit from the unsavory development with disney seeing its approval rating fall among people while desantis is trailing way behind the frontrunner donald trump in the republican presidential primary in premarket trading on monday disney stock was up 052 at 8675 according to benzinga pro data read next desantis calls washington dc a ‘swamp’ as he stands by trump after indictment ‘i will end weaponization of government’