His company’s political contributions: https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/ici-homes/summary?topnumcyc...
The easy way out of this is for the court to subpoena the professors. I wouldn't be surprised if U of F was taking this stance to force that to occur, and which point they can shrug, and say "we tried, but they were subpoenaed..."
That sounds like an overly biased, rosy fantasy.
Many of us that do not have an R or a D near our names are concerned about how easy it is to cheat the system with ballot harvesting, mail-in ballots, or, at will manipulation of voting laws by secretaries of state rather than legislative bodies, as the Constitution says.
One could scrape this into a graph database, https://dos.elections.myflorida.com/campaign-finance/contrib...
This has similarities with the shenanigans pulled by Sinema and Manchin around the Build Back Better plan. Political horse trading to advance the agendas of special interests, at great expense to millions of people.
I wonder if the tech community could get involved to increase transparency around this stuff. Imagine if we had an open graph of the money flow so we could write a SQL query like (pseudo code) "select * from donors where payee in (select id from trustees)". Let people crowdsource the data and then maintain a page of declarative queries so that anyone can instantly see the web of money around public officials. It could be part of a build system that automatically creates a NASCAR jacket for each official so we could see who their donors are in AR.
Maybe such a thing already exists. It's traditionally been accomplished by investigative journalists and lawyers, but why couldn't it be public? It seems like it would be an effective way to end the bribe system.