Scott: Florida will appeal court’s welfare drug tests ruling

Gov. Rick Scott’s controversial drug-testing mandate, passed by the Legislature in 2011, will end up in the U.S. Supreme Court. He decided to appeal Tuesday’s 11th Circuit Court of Appeals decision upholding the temporary ban on the state’s plan for drug testing of welfare recipients. The federal court, based in Atlanta, agreed with a lower court ruling that the state failed to prove the drug-testing plan was so important that it warranted suspending the Fourth Amendment, which prohibits…