Add another $1.5 million to Rick Scott's failed and racist drug testing bill

Top 10 for worst governor winner Rick Scott continues to leech his state's taxpayers of millions. You might remember that Rick Scott created a drug testing for welfare program deemed unconstitutional by a three judge panel back in December. Well, being unconstitutional, requiring unreasonable searches and violating people's civil liberties can cost you.

The state agreed earlier this month to pay $600,000 to the Florida Justice Institute and the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida, which represented a single father who sued the Department of Children and Families over a 2011 welfare drug-testing law.

And then there are the legal fees:

Other costs in the welfare drug-testing case totaled at least $309,000, including $13,300 for Avram Mack, a psychiatrist and Georgetown University School of Medicine professor whose testimony was banned by a judge. The court concluded that Mack was not qualified to be an expert in the case.

The state also paid the GrayRobinson law firm at least $160,000 to represent the Department of Children and Families.

Another $375,000 goes to the ACLU for a settlement in a different lawsuit, limiting drug tests in different job classes, all being covered in the racist, poorly thought out blanket of Rick Scott's failed policy.

The amount spent on both lawsuits -- at least $1.5 million -- would cover about 8,900 days of residential substance-abuse treatment, based on average costs for in-patient treatment in Florida.

Money well spent, Rick.