Florida Gov. Rick Scott is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to fight a Miami federal judge's ruling on drug-testing state employees. During Scott's first year in office, he issued an executive order for state agencies to conduct random drug tests of state employees. The American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees Council 79 sued on the grounds that it was unconstitutional, the Orlando Sentinel reports. In 2012, a Miami federal judge ruled that the order violated state employees' Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable searches.
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