Lagoa’s 14-year tenure as a state and federal judge Lagoa concurred this month in a federal appeals court ruling that is expected to keep many of the 85,000 felons who have registered to vote in Florida from casting ballots. Lagoa also wrote a controversial decision finding that DeSantis had broad executive authority to suspend a county sheriff over his handling of the 2018 shooting in Parkland, Fla. Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., said she is “very pro-life, reliably pro-life.”