Democratic Governor of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/california" target="_blank" rel="noopener">California</a> Gavin <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/gavin-newsom" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Newsom</a> signed several bills last week with conflicting messages on freedom of speech and censorship.
On Friday, Newsom signed a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/california-bill-would-put-new-rules-on-using-artistic-expressions-in-court" target="_blank" rel="noopener">measure</a> into <a href="https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2799" target="_blank" rel="noopener">law</a> that restricts the use of creative expression in court when it comes to criminal proceedings. The court must now take other items into consideration when someone wants to use “a form of creative expression” as evidence.
“Artists of all kinds should be able to create without the fear of unfair and prejudicial prosecution,” Newsom <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/01/politics/rap-lyrics-in-court-california-gavin-newsom/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a statement Friday. “California’s culture and entertainment industry set trends around the world and it’s fitting that our state is taking a nation-leading role to protect creative expression and ensure that artists are not criminalized under biased policies.”
In the law, creative expression doesn’t only apply to rap lyrics, although that is the application that has garnered the most interest. It is specified as “the expression or application of creativity or imagination in the production or arrangement of forms, sounds, words, movements, or symbols, including, but not limited to, music, dance, performance art, visual art, poetry, literature, film, and other such objects or media.”
Members of the music industry have said such measures are necessary, especially since rapper Young Thug has been indicted in Georgia, with some of his lyrics used in the indictment.
“Today we celebrate an important victory for music creators in the state of California. Silencing any genre or form of artistic expression is a violation against all music people. The history that’s been made in California today will help pave the way forward in the fight to protect creative freedom nationwide,” CEO of the Recording Academy, Harvey Mason Jr., reportedly noted in a statement on Friday.
On the other side of the topic of expression, Newsom signed a separate bill into <a href="https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2098" target="_blank" rel="noopener">law</a> on Friday that would limit the speech of physicians regarding <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/covid">COVID</a>.
The law states that it will be “unprofessional conduct for a physician and surgeon to disseminate misinformation or disinformation related to COVID-19, including false or misleading information regarding the nature and risks of the virus, its prevention and treatment; and the development, safety, and effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines.”
“Disinformation” is defined as “misinformation that the licensee deliberately disseminated with malicious intent or an intent to mislead.”
However, “[m]isinformation” is clarified to mean “false information that is contradicted by contemporary scientific consensus contrary to the standard of care.”
Doctors who carry out misconduct could be at risk to lose their license to practice medicine in California, per the <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/health/article/COVID-in-California-live-updates-17476514.php">San Francisco Chronicle</a>.
At the signing of the measure, Newsom reportedly <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/health/article/COVID-in-California-live-updates-17476514.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>, “To be clear, this bill does not apply to any speech outside of discussions related to COVID-19 treatment within a direct physician-patient relationship.”
Newsom’s allegiance to the free expression of rappers and artists does not appear to extend to physicians in the state.

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Newsom Signs Bills Restricting Use Of Rap Lyrics In Court While Censoring Doctors On COVID

Democratic Governor Of California Gavin Newsom Signs Bills Censoring Doctors On COVID While Restricting Use Of Rap Lyrics In Court

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Democratic Governor of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/california" target="_blank" rel="noopener">California</a> Gavin <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/gavin-newsom" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Newsom</a> <a href="https://www.gov.ca.gov/2022/09/29/governor-newsom-issues-legislative-update-9-29-22/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed</a> a bill into law on Thursday that would let previous arrests or convictions be hidden from background checks.
The bill is <a href="https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB731" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SB-731</a> and would allow a person who has been convicted of a felony, among other requirements, to be eligible for “automatic conviction relief.” The bill would not apply to people who are registered sex offenders or those who have committed a serious or violent felony. Four years also must have passed since the person finished probation and wasn’t convicted of another felony.
If someone has only been arrested for a felony, among other requirements, he or she could also take part in &#8220;arrest record relief.&#8221;
The person who has committed the felony must not be serving time or have any “indication of pending criminal charge.” He or she must also not have an active record. It goes into effect on July 1 of next year.
The Department of Justice must look at the criminal records and “identify persons with convictions that meet the criteria” and who are available to get &#8220;automatic conviction record relief.”
The measure doesn’t get rid of someone’s criminal record, but would essentially allow someone who has been arrested or convicted of a crime in the past to electronically seal those records so that the offenses do not show up in a criminal background check, per the <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/California-will-let-millions-of-past-offenders-17477110.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">San Francisco Chronicle</a>.
Various people have spoken out against the measure, concerned about issues that it could raise.
&#8220;There&#8217;s the old saying that the most effective way of predicting future behavior is past behavior. And yet, within a short period of time, under this very radical bill, these records will be sealed,&#8221; El Dorado County District Attorney Vern Pierson <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news/sb-731-heading-to-gov-newsoms-desk-will-seal-records-4-years-after-some-offenders-release/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> about the bill in August.
According to the legislative digest of the bill, it would allow the criminal history to be used for “teacher credentialing or employment in public education, as specified.” However, it would also prevent the “record of a conviction for possession of specified controlled substances” older than five years, “for which relief was granted” from being utilized in decisions about teacher credentialing.
California Republican Senator Shannon Grove, who voted against the bill along with all Senate Republicans and one lone Democrat, said the bill would let domestic violence perpetrators take advantage of its provisions.
“These things are very violent things even though they are not listed as serious and violent in the penal code,” Grove <a href="https://www.desertsun.com/story/news/nation/california/2022/08/18/california-senate-bill-731-us-law-sealing-criminal-records-maria-elena-durazo-gavin-newsom-sign/7835552001/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in August.
The Peace Officers Research Association of California said in a statement to the Chronicle that offenders would have “less deterrent to commit another crime” if they are let free with their record wiped. They also noted that the language of the measure doesn’t rule out some violent acts of crime.
The California Association of Licensed Investigators&#8217; president Frank W. Huntington, III sent the organization&#8217;s response to SB-731 to The Daily Wire, saying it &#8220;completely supports second chances. SB 731 was simply not the way to accomplish this goal.&#8221;
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&#8220;Presently, investigators are prohibited from reporting convictions older than seven years in pre- employment background matters. We at CALI offered the same conditions, even lowering the time frame to four years for other investigations including pre-housing inquiries. This compromise would have accomplished the exact same result without sealing records that have historically been public,&#8221; Huntington said in the response. &#8220;Now, with the signing of SB 731 into law, these records are no longer public, yet still accessible to government agencies such as prosecutors and law enforcement. In other words, the government has access to information the public no longer has. That is of great concern to us at CALI, as it should be to all.&#8221;
&#8220;CALI is also concerned that the sealing of critical public record information will lead to preventable situations where an employer hires an individual who harms an employee or customer and may be detrimental to the efforts of individuals and organizations to prevent domestic violence among many other public safety matters,&#8221; the response noted.
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California is the first state in the country to make an automatic process for closing off records of felonies. In 2019, Newsom <a href="https://ccresourcecenter.org/2019/10/10/california-becomes-third-state-to-adopt-clean-slate-record-relief/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed</a> a bill making California the third state to allow &#8220;clean slate&#8221; automatic record relief.

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Newsom Signs Bill Allowing Criminals To Hide Records From Background Checks

Democratic California Governor Gavin Newsom Signs Bill SB 731 Allowing Criminals To Hide Records From Background Checks

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Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/gavin-newsom" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gavin Newsom</a> signed a bill Thursday making California a sanctuary state for child gender surgery.
The new law restricts California officials and health providers from cooperating with out-of-state attempts to stop a child from getting gender health services, which could include puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, or gender surgery.
“In California we believe in equality and acceptance. We believe that no one should be prosecuted or persecuted for getting the care they need — including gender-affirming care,” Newsom said in a signing message.
“Parents know what’s best for their kids, and they should be able to make decisions around the health of their children without fear. We must take a stand for parental choice,” the governor added.
The <a href="https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB107" target="_blank" rel="noopener">law</a> prohibits health care providers from releasing medical information about a child receiving gender health services in response to a criminal or civil action from a state where such care is restricted.
The bill also bans police from arresting or extraditing someone based on another state&#8217;s restrictions for providing gender health services to a child. The law also prohibits California officials from enforcing another state&#8217;s order that a child be removed from parents who allow the child to receive gender health services.
Critics have sounded the alarm over several clauses in the bill that deal with custody of children who are receiving gender health services.
The law authorizes a court to take &#8220;temporary jurisdiction because a child has been unable to obtain gender-affirming health care.&#8221;
The law also prohibits a court from &#8220;considering the taking or retention of a child from a person who has legal custody of the child, if the taking or retention was for obtaining gender-affirming health care or mental health care.&#8221;
The bill, Senate Bill 107, was sponsored by state Senator Scott Wiener (D), who represents San Francisco.
In 2020, Wiener sponsored another law Newsom signed that says adults who have oral or anal sex with a child ten years younger than them may not have to register as sex offenders, leaving that decision to a judge. The law supposedly addressed discrimination against LGBT people.
Before his bill was passed, Wiener acknowledged that the Constitution limits what they are able to do with this bill.
“We may have limits under the U.S. Constitution, but we are going to go right up to the edge of what we’re able to do to protect them and say, ‘Unless we are absolutely forced to send you back, we are not going to send you back,’” Wiener <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-09-29/with-new-law-california-welcomes-out-of-state-transgender-youth" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
Wiener is a long-time advocate on LGBT issues and has participated in several of San Francisco&#8217;s LGBT celebrations over the years.
Last week, Wiener attended San Francisco&#8217;s &#8220;Leather Pride Week,&#8221; where he <a href="https://twitter.com/Scott_Wiener/status/1574161185351421952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1574161185351421952%7Ctwgr%5E2a7196984536548cf11a99f63c11a9e9e5d10ef3%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.queerty.com%2Fsenator-scott-wiener-posts-shirtless-folsom-pic-right-wingers-explode-20220927" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posed</a> shirtless with four leather-wearing men. He also <a href="https://twitter.com/Scott_Wiener/status/777579947049136128" target="_blank" rel="noopener">attended</a> in 2016.
Conservative groups have slammed the bill as infringing on the rights of parents to protect their children from harmful medical procedures.
“SB 107 is one of the gravest threats to parental rights in recent years,” <a href="https://www.californiafamily.org/2022/08/victory-and-defeat-for-parental-rights-in-sacramento/">said</a> Jonathan Keller, president of California Family Council.
“If Governor Newsom foolishly signs this measure, California should brace for lawsuits. Other states’ Attorneys General will not sit idly by as California steals children from parents who don’t want them sterilized with these trans-treatments.”
The law may indeed face legal challenges, since federal requirements <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-09-29/with-new-law-california-welcomes-out-of-state-transgender-youth" target="_blank" rel="noopener">say</a> states must recognize other states&#8217; laws when residents travel.
Earlier this year, California established itself as a sanctuary state for abortion. Newsom signed a slate of abortion bills designed to strengthen protections around abortion in the state.
One of the bills prohibits California police from cooperating with other states’ investigations related to abortions.

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Newsom Signs Bill Making California Sanctuary For Child Gender Surgery

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Los Angeles-area Pastor John MacArthur penned an <a href="http://romans45.org/misc/Newsom.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">open letter</a> to California Democratic Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/gavin-newsom" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gavin Newsom</a> Thursday after the governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/newsom-pitches-abortion-friendly-california-in-red-state-billboard-blitz" target="_blank" rel="noopener">blitzed</a> red states with abortion billboards earlier this month.
Newsom’s billboards promoted <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/california" target="_blank" rel="noopener">California</a> as an abortion-friendly state and quoted the words of Jesus Christ when he told his followers to love their neighbors. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/author/john-macarthur" target="_blank" rel="noopener">MacArthur</a> called out Newsom’s abortion ad campaign, writing that it “revealed to the entire nation how thoroughly rebellious against God” the governor is.
“You further compounded the wickedness of that murderous campaign with a reprehensible act of gross blasphemy, quoting the very words of Jesus from Mark 12:31 as if you could somehow twist His meaning and arrogate His name in favor of butchering unborn infants,” MacArthur <a href="http://romans45.org/misc/Newsom.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>. “You used the name and the words of Christ to promote the credo of Molech (Leviticus 20:1–5). It would be hard to imagine a greater sacrilege.”
The democratic governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/newsom-pitches-abortion-friendly-california-in-red-state-billboard-blitz" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rented</a> 18 billboards in Indiana, Mississippi, Ohio, Texas, South Carolina, South Dakota, and Oklahoma, all states that have passed or pushed for legislation to protect unborn babies.
A billboard in Texas features a woman in handcuffs with the caption, “Texas doesn’t own your body. You do.” Another billboard asks, “Need an abortion? California is ready to help.” At the bottom of the advertisement, Jesus is quoted from Mark 12:31.
“Love your neighbor as yourself. There is no greater commandment than these,” the verse says.
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<a href="https://twitter.com/tatereeves?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@tatereeves</a> the people of Mississippi deserve to know they have access to the care you are refusing to provide. This will be launching in your state today. <a href="https://t.co/8qg7psYT2j">pic.twitter.com/8qg7psYT2j</a>
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Along with advertising for abortion in other states, Newsom recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/newsom-signs-onslaught-of-pro-abortion-bills" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed</a> a wave of pro-abortion bills aimed at making California a sanctuary for those seeking abortions.
MacArthur’s letter comes after he called out Newsom in a recent sermon for choosing to quote the words of Jesus to promote the practice of abortion, and said “A line was crossed this week that really really gripped my heart.”
“I say this because my heart is grieved that Christ should be so dishonored. Billboards across the country with the words of Jesus trying to support abortion? Terrifying,” he added.
This is not the first time the renowned pastor and author stood up to Newsom. During the summer of 2020, MacArthur’s Grace Community Church openly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/macarthur-we-cannot-yield-to-caesar-that-which-belongs-to-god" target="_blank" rel="noopener">defied</a> Newsom’s strict orders regarding gathering and social distancing during the COVID pandemic.
The church was later <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/l-a-county-to-pay-400000-to-john-macarthurs-grace-community-church" target="_blank" rel="noopener">vindicated</a> when the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted to pay Grace Community Church $400,000. The settlement stemmed from a Supreme Court decision declaring that churches in California could be exempt from enforcement of some of the state’s coronavirus policies.
But for MacArthur, neither the COVID guideline defiance nor the letter to Newsom over abortion are about politics. Rather, the pastor said he is more concerned for Newsom’s soul.
“Governor Gavin Newsom, who has decided that he is going to lead the nation in providing the slaughter of the children that God creates in the womb has postured himself as if he were Herod. And I am deeply concerned for the jeopardy of his eternal soul.”
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‘Reprehensible Act Of Gross Blasphemy’: Renowned California Pastor Writes Open Letter To Gavin Newsom After Abortion Billboards Quote Jesus

Pastor John MacArthur Writes Open Letter To Gavin Newsom After Abortion Billboards Quote Jesus

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Democratic Governor of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/california" target="_blank" rel="noopener">California</a> Gavin <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/gavin-newsom" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Newsom</a> <a href="https://calmatters.org/health/2022/09/california-abortion-bills/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed</a> a slew of abortion-related bills on Tuesday, attempting to set his state further apart from areas that have taken action to protect the lives of the unborn. 
“With today&#8217;s abortion expansion, Gavin Newsom continues his shadow campaign for president. By signing these 13 bills from the Future of Abortion Council, Newsom hopes to secure his spot in the White House at the expense of women and their unborn children,” California Family Council President Jonathan Keller said in an emailed press release to The Daily Wire.
“Governor Newsom tells pregnant women California has their back, but only if they choose to end their pregnancies. This package provides NO care for women who choose to keep their children. Gavin&#8217;s not pro-choice; he&#8217;s no choice,” he added.
Some of the bills are part of Newsom’s determination to make the Golden State a sanctuary state for abortion so that women will travel to the West Coast to get the procedure if it is not allowed in the state in which they reside. Newsom has gone so far as to take out <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/newsom-pitches-abortion-friendly-california-in-red-state-billboard-blitz" target="_blank" rel="noopener">advertisements</a> on billboards in states that have taken pro-life actions in order to tell women about abortion availability in California.
“An alarming number of states continue to outlaw abortion and criminalize women, and it’s more important than ever to fight like hell for those who need these essential services. We’re doing everything we can to protect people from any retaliation for accessing abortion care while also making it more affordable to get contraceptives,” Newsom <a href="https://www.gov.ca.gov/2022/09/27/new-protections-for-people-who-need-abortion-care-and-birth-control/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “Our Legislature has been on the frontlines of this fight, and no other legislative body in the country is doing more to protect these fundamental rights – I’m proud to stand with them again and sign these critical bills into law.”
<a href="https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2223" target="_blank" rel="noopener">AB 2223</a> prevents someone from facing criminal or civil punishment “based on their actions or omissions with respect to their pregnancy or actual, potential, or alleged pregnancy outcome, including miscarriage, stillbirth, or abortion, or perinatal death due to causes that occurred in utero.”
While the term “perinatal death” can refer to fetal deaths at certain ages of gestation, according to the <a href="https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/137/5/e20160551/52158/Standard-Terminology-for-Fetal-Infant-and?autologincheck=redirected?nfToken=00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000" target="_blank" rel="noopener">American Academy of Pediatrics</a>, it can also be defined as “infant deaths that occur at less than 7 days of age” or “infant deaths that occur at less than 28 days of age.”
The language of the bill could raise concerns that a baby can be killed if he or she survives an abortion or is born alive after another complication.
<a href="https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1375" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SB 1375</a> seeks to create more people who can perform abortions in the state, and offers ways for nurse practitioners and nurse-midwives to receive training to be able to perform abortions using aspiration methods, which is when a vacuum device is <a href="https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn/abortion/in-clinic-abortion-procedures#:~:text=Suction%20abortion%20(also%20called%20vacuum,of%20in%2Dclinic%20abortion%20procedure." target="_blank" rel="noopener">used</a> to suck a fetus out of a woman’s uterus. According to <a href="https://www.ucsfhealth.org/education/aspiration-versus-medication-abortion" target="_blank" rel="noopener">UCSF Health</a>, women can get this type of abortion at up to 14 weeks gestation.
Some of the laws signed by Newsom are directed specifically at preventing individuals from taking part in the enforcement of laws from other states.
<a href="https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2091" target="_blank" rel="noopener">AB 2091</a> prevents entities from sharing “medical information related to an individual seeking or obtaining an abortion in response to a subpoena or request,” if the directive comes from the laws of another state.
<a href="https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1242" target="_blank" rel="noopener">AB 1242</a> prohibits law enforcement from knowingly arresting or taking part in the arrest of someone getting an abortion or “performing, supporting, or aiding in the performance of an abortion” in California if the abortion is legal under the state&#8217;s laws.
Another bill, <a href="https://legiscan.com/CA/text/SB523/2021" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SB 523</a>, makes contraception more widely attainable.

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Newsom Signs Onslaught Of Pro-Abortion Bills

Democratic California Governor Gavin Newsom Signs Abortion Bills Into Law

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Among more than a dozen abortion and so-called reproductive health <a href="https://a15.asmdc.org/press-releases/20220927-asm-wicks-reproductive-health-advocates-celebrate-signing-ab-2223">bills</a> California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Tuesday, one piece of legislation has pro-life advocates sick to their stomachs.
Assembly bill <a href="https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2223">2223</a> would prohibit coroners from holding an inquest after fetal death “related to or following known or suspected self-induced or criminal abortion.” The bill would further clarify under the Reproductive Privacy Act that pregnancy loss — through miscarriage, stillbirth, abortion, or perinatal death due to causes that occurred in utero — would not be criminalized.
Newsom signed the bill, vowing to “fight like hell” for those who want abortions as several states nationwide deal with the aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court’s historic decision last summer to overturn Roe v. Wade, bringing abortion laws back to the states.
Assemblymember Buffy Wicks (D-Oakland), who authored the legislation, <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-09-27/newsom-signs-13-abortion-protection-and-reproductive-health-bills">told</a> The Los Angeles Times that lawmakers created the bill to “ensure and enshrine that no person can be criminally prosecuted for something that happens in utero, which has happened in California.”
Wicks <a href="https://a15.asmdc.org/press-releases/20220927-asm-wicks-reproductive-health-advocates-celebrate-signing-ab-2223">argues</a> since the early aughts, approximately 1,300 pregnant “people” have been criminally prosecuted for having miscarriages, stillbirths, or for “self-managing” abortions.
Yet California lawmakers who oppose the legislation have warned such laws could put unborn children in grave danger by prohibiting such investigations.
State Sen. Melissa Melendez (R-Lake Elsinore), who has pressed Wicks since introducing it in the state legislature, called the bill a “grotesque callousness toward the unborn.”
“With Newsom’s signing of AB 2223 if you attempt to abort your baby but it’s born alive, you can now let it die or kill it and no one can investigate the death or hold the woman/person who helped her criminally liable,” Melendez said in a <a href="https://twitter.com/senatormelendez/status/1574873876701454337">tweet</a>. “ This is grotesque callousness toward the unborn.”
Susan Swift, vice president of legal affairs for the Right to Life League, <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/california-seeks-to-become-mecca-of-abortion-tourism-pro-life-attorney_4758492.html?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=digitalsub">told</a> The Epoch Times what California legislators have done with abortion in the state is “horrific.”
In June, the Right to Life League wrote an open <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/19MoJqjcAu9qwhcLKvtsGTJYMuNwQr7ke/view">letter</a> to California lawmakers about the bill, saying it was poorly drafted and could de-regulate the entire abortion industry.
“In its attempt to protect women from prosecution for abortion, AB 2223’s overbroad language creates a host of unforeseen legal ramifications,” the letter reads. “The bill potentially de-regulates abortion and overrides existing medical protections for women by creating a class of cooperating individuals unaccountable to state licensing agencies or regulations.”
The organization said AB 2223 goes much further than shielding pregnant women from prosecution.
“Nobody’s going to want to risk the lawsuit of investigating [a death],” Swift told The Epoch Times. “And it’s going to cover up all the data of all of the babies that survive abortions.”
The California Globe <a href="https://californiaglobe.com/articles/infanticide-or-pregnancy-loss-abortion-bill-passes-assembly-judiciary-committee/">reported</a> that The California Family Council, a biblically-based pro-life organization, explained their opposition to the bill.
The group wrote that lawmakers not only want to codify the “killing of unborn children throughout all nine months of pregnancy but to decriminalize killing newborns days or even weeks after birth.”
Earlier this year, during a hearing for the legislation, LifeNews.com tweeted a <a href="https://twitter.com/LifeNewsHQ/status/1516455371719720967">video</a> showing hundreds of California residents showing up to voice their concerns about the bill.
However, Wicks claimed, according to The California Globe, that it was &#8220;not a bill about infanticide” and women should “not be prosecuted for a pregnancy loss.”
Newsom signed the bill just before the November midterm elections where residents will vote on Proposition 1, a proposed amendment  that would not allow the state to &#8220;deny or interfere with an individual’s reproductive freedom in their most intimate decisions, which includes their fundamental right to choose to have an abortion and their fundamental right to choose or refuse contraceptives.”

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/newsom-demands-desantis-debate-him-gets-mocked-by-his-own-ex-staffer-youre-losing-the-argument">The governors of Florida and California</a> provide a dramatic contrast and a return to the trend of nominating experienced executives to run the federal government — instead of professional legislative talkers.
The specter of a repeat election between Joe Biden and Donald Trump would be dull, repetitious, and frankly, not very good for the country.
Joe Biden has yet to be president for two years and it stretches the boundaries of one’s imagination to consider what his capacity will be in late fall of 2028. 
Donald Trump, for all the passion and devotion he still commands from a majority of Republicans, would be a backwards-looking candidate, mired in the morass of election fraud claims, FBI raids, and who knows how many iterations of legal trouble.
For almost a decade, the United States has centered its political gravity on the style of its candidates, rewarding the most outrageous, excessive, and in some cases, vile behavior with endless media and online attention. To a certain extent, what the United States needs now is less bravado and bluster, with fewer social media ninjas running for office. 
No matter what one thinks about Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and California Governor Gavin Newsom, both men are serious politicians with serious resumes.
And by the looks of things, <a href="https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/article266221091.html">serious presidential ambitions</a>.
The first benefit of a Newsom-DeSantis general election contest is that it would feature two sitting governors, a fascinating geographic and institutional dynamic not witnessed in the country for over a century, since 1876. A strong argument could be made that the best presidential candidates in recent times are governors and the worst are sitting members of congress.
George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Ronald Reagan all had records as strong executives with substantial records of governance. They actually had to keep the water running, the lights on, and the schools open. While the American presidency is a uniquely difficult job — some would say an impossible job that has <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/presidency-too-big-job-70121">grown too big</a> with its endless portfolio of tasks and responsibilities — the closest stepping stone is a governor from a mid to large size state.
Senators, on the other hand, talk. And talk. And talk. They talk from the rostrum of the Senate. They talk when they are serving on committees or conducting oversight. They talk when they are bloviating on cable news. This isn’t to denigrate the necessity of talking — but the job of a Senator is to craft legislation, broker compromise, form consensus, and rally constituencies. All of this, of course, is the job of a legislator.
Legislating is not tantamount to governing. Senators don’t run organizations; they run their mouths. Some of them, of course, are extraordinary talkers, and through their oratorical grace have elevated the quality of political discourse — think of Daniel Webster or Henry Clay. Some are simply American heroes whose devotion to the country and the Senate was nothing less than extraordinary — think Bob Dole or Daniel Inouye.
But the country would be better served by contrasting records, not conflicting rhetoric. We don’t need another election cycle with Bernie Sanders traveling the country oozing contempt for “billionaires.” We don’t need young Republican senators talking to voters like they are in a foreign policy seminar at Yale. 
Which brings us to the real value of a Newsom-DeSantis contest. First of all, it would be fun without being unserious. Not only do they differ in policy, disposition, and pedigree, they seem to genuinely dislike one another. 
In an <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-21/california-s-newsom-can-t-stand-desantis-and-his-migrant-flights?leadSource=uverify%20wall" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview with Bloomberg</a> last week, Newsom was explicit in his disdain of DeSantis: “I cannot stand Ron DeSantis and these folks that are using these human beings, children, as political pawns . . . It’s disgusting. The cruelty of that is self-evident to any person that truly cares and has compassion.” 
When Newsom suggested the Justice Department investigate the governors of Texas and Florida for sending migrants to sanctuary cities and states, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/desantis-on-newsom-urging-doj-probe-over-migrants-his-hair-gel-is-interfering-with-his-brain-function" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DeSantis fired back</a>, &#8220;So the Governor of California sent a letter to the Department of Justice saying, ‘You need to prosecute Texas and Florida Governors.’ And all I can say is, I think his hair gel is interfering with his brain function.&#8221;
Time to get the popcorn.  
But most of all, California and Florida are the first and third largest states in the country run by governors with colossal policy differences. On an expansive variety of issues — taxes, school choice and education activism, COVID procedures, environmentalism — the American people could contrast their policies by comparing real-world outcomes and by asking the most salient question of all: do people actually want to live in the state run by either of these men? 
As the <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-newsom-desantis-debate-cnn-florida-california-governor-elections-ideas-11663529772">Wall Street Journal observed</a>, “A debate would let voters see the difference between the California and Florida models of governance.”
Both men are also more complicated and nuanced than the national media corps lets on. While DeSantis wins attention by declaring war on woke warriors, over-reaching COVID bureaucrats, and “left-wing oligarchs,” he is profoundly bookish and well-read, attending Yale as an undergraduate and scoring in the 99th percentile on the SAT as <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/06/27/can-ron-desantis-displace-donald-trump-as-the-gops-combatant-in-chief" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dexter Filkins explains</a> in his sprawling New Yorker essay on DeSantis. 
Newsom is more pragmatic than he lets on — while he’d like to be seen as an environmental messiah, he was willing to extend the life of the <a href="https://calmatters.org/environment/2022/09/diablo-canyon-legislature-california/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Diablo Canyon nuclear</a> power plant to keep the lights on a little longer. I live in California and can attest to the endless miasma of malfeasant statism, having lived through two years of heavy-handed COVID policies, endless fees, taxes, unionism, ubiquitous homelessness, power shortages, water rationing, and half of my friends moving to Texas. DeSantis, on the other hand, seems to be a politician lacking in humor. Serious is fine. Humorless is not. While no one questions his sterling educational and professional resume, successful national campaigns require a certain dexterity of capacity during a presidential race that can render even career politicians inert on the campaign trail.
Does anyone remember the campaigns of Scott Walker or Fred Thompson? I didn’t think so.
Both men are already reviled by large portions of the public. Such is the state of American politics. But that doesn’t mean a robust contest between the two wouldn’t be good for the country. It would be.
Jeremy S. Adams is the author of Hollowed Out: A Warning About America&#8217;s Next Generation, recently released in paperback. He has taught American civics for 24 years in Bakersfield, California and was the 2014 California Teacher of the Year (DAR). You can follow him on Twitter @JeremyAdams6.  
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has blocked <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/california" target="_blank" rel="noopener">California’s</a> ban on private <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/prison" target="_blank" rel="noopener">prisons</a> and for-profit immigration detention centers after a panel of judges ruled against it last year.
The panel of eleven judges said that federal law, specifically the Supremacy Clause in the U.S. Constitution, supersedes the state measure. 
The Supremacy Clause, or Article VI, Paragraph 2 of the Constitution, <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/supremacy_clause#:~:text=Article%20VI,%20Paragraph%202%20of,laws,%20and%20even%20state%20constitutions." target="_blank" rel="noopener">holds</a> that the U.S. Constitution and federal legislation takes priority over the laws of states. 
“This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding,” the Constitution <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/articlevi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reads</a> in part.
Circuit Judge Jacqueline Nguyen <a href="https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2022/09/26/20-56172.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> the opinion for the majority. 
“The en banc court held that AB 32 would breach the core promise of the Supremacy Clause. To comply with California law, ICE would have to cease its ongoing immigration detention operations in California and adopt an entirely new approach in the state,” Nguyen wrote. “This foundational limit on state power cannot be squared with the dramatic changes that AB 32 would require ICE to make.”
The state was <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-09-26/court-says-california-ban-on-private-ice-detention-facilities-is-unconstitutional">sued</a> by the federal government and a federal contractor, which asked that the law&#8217;s execution be blocked by injunction. A district court refused.
Last year, three judges on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals <a href="https://apnews.com/article/immigration-donald-trump-gavin-newsom-san-diego-california-ba5b3ef5a1398fe7ab2ca6bf31627878" target="_blank" rel="noopener">decided</a> that the measure was in conflict with the powers of the federal government.
“AB 32 cannot stand because it conflicts with this federal power and discretion given to the Secretary (of Homeland Security) in an area that remains in the exclusive realm of the federal government, and it bars the Secretary from doing what federal immigration law explicitly permits him or her to do,” Judge Kenneth Lee wrote.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta then asked that a larger panel review the ruling, <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/27/court-blocks-california-prison-ban-00058967">according</a> to Politico. This week, the higher court got <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-09-26/court-says-california-ban-on-private-ice-detention-facilities-is-unconstitutional">rid</a> of the lower court’s ruling refusing an injunction and returned it to be reviewed.
The 2019 law, <a href="https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB32" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Assembly Bill 32</a>, would not have allowed the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to incarcerate anyone in a “private, for-profit prison facility” after January 1, 2028. Governor Gavin <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/gavin-newsom" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Newsom</a> (D-CA) signed the law in 2019, and it was originally sponsored by Bonta when he was in the California Assembly. 
Bonta’s office said it is looking over the ruling but is “deeply disappointed” by it. The measure “was enacted to protect the health and welfare of Californians and recognized the federal government’s own documented concerns with for-profit, private prisons and detention facilities,” his office noted in a statement, per Politico.

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Appeals Court Rules California’s Ban On For-Profit Prisons, Immigration Detention Centers Is Unconstitutional

Appeals Court Rules California's Ban On For-Profit Prisons, Immigration Detention Centers Violates Supremacy Clause Of Constitution

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Democratic Governor of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/california" target="_blank" rel="noopener">California</a> Gavin <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/gavin-newsom" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Newsom</a> spoke at an event in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/texas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Texas</a> over the weekend, apparently blatantly disregarding a California law that prohibits government travel to the state. 
Texas is one of 22 states in which California state government travel is prohibited, because it has deemed them to have “discriminatory laws.” In 2017, this measure <a href="https://oag.ca.gov/ab1887/faqs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">went</a> into effect in California, as the state first took action due to North Carolina’s measures to keep people who identify as transgender out of certain bathrooms. 
The law <a href="https://oag.ca.gov/sites/all/files/agweb/pdfs/ab1887/ab-1887-text.pdf?" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bans</a> entities such as “[a] state agency, department, board, authority, or commission, including an agency, department, board, authority, or commission of the University of California, the Board of Regents of the University of California, or the California State University, and the Legislature” from “[r]equir[ing] any of its employees, officers, or members to travel to a state that” following June 26, 2015, “voids or repeals, or has the effect of voiding or repealing, existing state or local protections against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression,” along with other clarifications.
The attorney general is in charge of publishing a list of the states that are under the “travel ban” online, per the AG’s <a href="https://oag.ca.gov/ab1887" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a> on the matter. 
Currently included on the list are Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Texas, Utah, North Carolina, Montana, as well as others. 
Newsom has created speculation that he is planning to run for president as he continually goes after Republican-led states and Republican politicians, specifically states that have taken action to protect unborn lives. 
He recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/newsom-pitches-abortion-friendly-california-in-red-state-billboard-blitz" target="_blank" rel="noopener">took</a> out 18 billboards promoting California for abortion in Indiana, Mississippi, Ohio, Texas, South Carolina, South Dakota, and Oklahoma, all of which are on the state’s banned list. 
Some pointed out this summer that Newsom took a vacation to Montana, one of the states on the banned list. His representatives said he was not in violation as it was a personal matter. However, he did bring security personnel along with him. 
In Austin, Texas, Newsom told Democrats they should entirely shift their political methods because they are too shy and are “getting crushed” by the GOP. He said the Democratic Party is typically on the defensive as Republicans “dominate with illusion,” according to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/california-gavin-newsom-appears-texas-other-states-despite-ban-official-travel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a>. 
He also reiterated his claim that he is not running for president in 2024 or the next election in 2028, saying, “No, not happening.” 
&#8220;I cannot say it enough,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I never trust politicians, so I get why you keep asking.”

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Newsom Travels To Texas Even Though It’s One Of California’s Banned Travel States

Democratic Governor Of California Gavin Newsom Travels To Texas, Even Though It's One Of California's Banned Travel States 

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Californians are growing increasingly frustrated with Governor Gavin Newsom’s expanding and seemingly endless overreach of powers. Newsom began his quest to control nearly all aspects of his citizens’ lives — from how they cook and eat to how they work — long before the COVID pandemic began. He then used his perpetual emergency powers under the pandemic to dramatically accelerate this process.
Newsom’s means of broadening his control tend to fit a common formula: identify simple things that normal people consider to be their rights, treat those rights as privileges, take them away, and perhaps force people to behave the right way (as defined by Newsom) to earn those privileges back. 
When Newsom <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-09-18/gavin-newsom-signs-ab5-employees0independent-contractors-california" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed AB5 into law</a>, independent contractors were told that their jobs were now illegal in California because they must be classified as employees, not contractors. In an instant, hundreds of thousands of hard-working truckers, barbers, drivers, private tutors, and many other Californians who were happily employed had their livelihoods jeopardized or destroyed largely because Newsom wanted to expand the ranks of dues-paying union members in California. Now those same workers must ask permission to practice their own skill.
In the face of a prolonged drought — for which Newsom refused to properly prepare — he issued <a href="https://www.calcities.org/news/post/2022/06/08/state-implements-new-water-conservation-measures-and-warns-of-the-potential-for-harsher-restrictions">heavy watering restrictions</a> on non-residential customers while backing off a threat to impose draconian restrictions on residents only because it was impossible to surpass <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-11/california-governor-speeds-up-drought-plan-stops-short-of-restrictions">existing local watering restrictions</a>. Since when did we have to ask permission to enjoy a long shower, wash our cars, or keep our gardens green?
More recently, Newsom has been at it again when he announced a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/24/climate/california-gas-cars-emissions.html">ban on the sale of all gasoline-fueled cars</a> in California by 2035. No sooner did he proclaim full control over the state’s most widespread, essential, and reliable means of transportation in the name of addressing climate change than his own administration asked current owners of electric vehicles to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/01/us/california-heat-wave-flex-alert-ac-ev-charging.html">stop charging their cars and turn up the temperature</a> on their thermostats during a weeklong heat wave, highlighting how ill-prepared California’s grid and its increasing reliance on so-called green power are for a surge in electricity demand. Would anyone have expected the threat of rolling blackouts to occur in the most affluent state in the most prosperous nation on earth?
The COVID pandemic only fueled Newsom’s ambitions to control his citizens with the opportunity to invoke the 1970 California Emergency Services Act, which gave him legal power — reaffirmed by state courts — to <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-05-05/appeals-court-upholds-newsoms-emergency-powers-during-pandemic">modify or make new state laws</a> as long as he declared the pandemic to be an emergency. With this authority, Newsom decided to take away children’s right to an in-person public education (while his own kids <a href="https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2020/10/30/newsom-sends-his-children-back-to-school-classrooms-in-california-1332811">attended private school in person</a>), or to see their friends and teachers’ faces once they finally did return to school, <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/30/848672491/governor-temporarily-closes-all-beaches-and-state-parks-in-orange-county-califor">closed beaches and state parks</a> (which incidentally have the best ventilation and most opportunities to socially distance), shut down outdoor playgrounds (leading to a <a href="https://about.kaiserpermanente.org/our-story/health-research/news/young-children-gained-weight-during-the-pandemic">dramatic weight gain among young children</a>), forced the cancellation of <a href="https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/california/california-to-resume-scheduled-surgeries-amid-outbreak/2277522/">thousands of “elective” surgeries</a> (many of which were for urgent issues like eyesight or fertility, and which could not afford to be postponed), and caused Christmas carolers to <a href="https://abc7news.com/napa-carolers-defy-newsom-christmas-caroling-event-california-lockdown-order-covid19/9037216/">celebrate under threat of arrest</a>. 
Perhaps most shockingly of all, Newsom’s blanket stay-at-home order led to the <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-04-03/paddle-boarder-arrested-in-malibu-after-flouting-coronavirus-closures">dramatic arrest of a solo stand-up paddle-boarder</a> off the coast of Malibu. This is only a partial list of the rights that Newsom arbitrarily took away, at great human cost, in the name of COVID protection.
But when it comes to the practice of medicine in California, in particular the sacred trust between patients and physicians when holding confidential informed consent discussions regarding medical treatment options, the worse may be yet to come. At any moment, in the face of a recent proclamation by <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-covid-pandemic-over/">President Biden that the pandemic is “over”</a>, Newsom may sign into law California Assembly Bill (AB) 2098, a devastating, unconstitutional bill already passed by both the massive state Senate and Assembly democratic majorities. AB2098 would <a href="https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2098">suspend or revoke the medical license</a> of any physician who is believed by the state’s medical board to be spreading “COVID misinformation.” The medical board, a politically appointed body, is led by a partner at a litigation law firm who has no medical experience.
The text of AB2098 justifies its need by stating: “The spread of misinformation and disinformation about COVID vaccines has weakened public confidence and placed lives at serious risk.” Is this the same misinformation from some physicians that questioned the <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/30/politics/joe-biden-covid-19-positive/index.html">President’s now disproven</a> assertion that “<a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/07/22/remarks-by-president-biden-in-a-cnn-town-hall-with-don-lemon/">you’re not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations</a>” that caused them to lose their social media profiles? So where did Newsom and his legislators get their information that physicians are the most dangerous and prolific purveyors of COVID “misinformation”? 
Thankfully, they noted it for us in AB2098: “Major news outlets have reported that some of the most dangerous propagators of inaccurate information regarding the COVID vaccines are licensed health care professionals.” Newsom is admittedly relying on the mainstream, legacy media as its source for the rationale to create a law that would silence or end the careers of physicians. Let that sink in for a moment.
And just in case there was any doubt over the definition of “misinformation,” AB2098 kindly provides that for us as well: “false information that is contradicted by contemporary scientific consensus contrary to the standard of care.” Newsom isn’t relying on published, peer-reviewed medical facts from reputable scientific journals to determine what is truth, but rather on an arbitrary notion of “contemporary scientific consensus” which in plain English means whatever his people currently believe to be the truth.
It is obvious where this is going, and we know from history that it won’t lead to anything good. Our earliest example of real scientists being punished by authorities for publishing “misinformation” that violates “contemporary scientific consensus” is from 1633, when the Catholic Church <a href="https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/galileo-is-accused-of-heresy">convicted of astronomer Galileo Galilei of heresy</a> for teaching that the earth revolves around the sun, not the other way around as the Church had taught, and sentenced him to house arrest for the remainder of his life. It took 300 years for this decision to be retracted.
Unfortunately for Newsom, today we have something called the Constitution and it protects free and truthful (the kind that can be proven in court) speech. If Newsom dares to sign AB2098, it will extort, silence, and/or punish good, honest physicians who practice evidence-based medicine and understand that informed consent and patient autonomy only arise from an open, thorough discussion of the potential risks, benefits, and alternatives to any treatment. That includes having a conversation about each individual’s need for any treatment (including a vaccination), their unique risks and risk tolerance, the potential benefits to them, and alternatives, which always include no treatment at all.
Does Newsom realize that he’s about to codify arbitrary, politically-driven medical censorship into law and guarantee further erosion of patients’ trust in physicians, a deepening of our state’s already-severe physician shortage, a losing battle in the courts, and an even greater degree of national embarrassment for himself and his party? He has already <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/20a136_bq7c.pdf">lost one battle at the Supreme Court</a> after shutting down churches, synagogues, and other houses of worship, so what is another loss to him in the grand scheme of things?
With Newsom’s obvious national ambitions, the entire nation is now watching him. Perhaps he should seriously consider a veto of AB2098, as he recently did with the poorly conceived bill that would have established a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/22/us/gavin-newsom-vetoes-drug-injection-sites.html">statewide chain of safe injection sites</a> for illegal, deadly narcotics. And if he wants an out, he can simply parrot Biden’s recent comments and say it’s no longer necessary.
Houman David Hemmati, M.D., Ph.D. is a board-certified ophthalmologist and biomedical research scientist in Santa Monica, California. Dr. Hemmati earned a BS in Biological Sciences from Stanford University, an MD from UCLA School of Medicine, and a PhD from Caltech, and completed an internship in Internal Medicine at Stanford Hospital, an ophthalmology residency at the Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins Hospital, a postdoctoral research fellowship in chemical engineering at MIT, and a clinical fellowship at Harvard Medical School. He has co-founded and helps run two pharmaceutical companies developing treatments for eye diseases like macular degeneration, and has published extensively in the areas of stem cell research and blinding eye diseases. You can follow him on Twitter: @houmanhemmati
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/california">California</a> Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a package of bills related to undocumented residents last week that includes approval of state identification for migrants in the state.
Newsom signed the bill, <a href="https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1766" target="_blank" rel="noopener">AB 1766</a>, that directs California&#8217;s Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to issue a restricted identification card to eligible participants by no later than July 1, 2027.
“California is expanding opportunity for everyone, regardless of immigration status,” Newsom said in a <a href="https://www.gov.ca.gov/2022/09/23/california-ids-for-all/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>.
“We’re a state of refuge – a majority-minority state, where 27 percent of us are immigrants. That’s why I’m proud to announce the signing of today’s bills to further support our immigrant community, which makes our state stronger every single day,&#8221; he added.
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Generations of immigrants have helped shape California’s culture and economic success. With this legislation, California continues to advance equity and expand opportunity for all.<a href="https://t.co/2k9Jdpjzgk">https://t.co/2k9Jdpjzgk</a>
&mdash; Office of the Governor of California (@CAgovernor) <a href="https://twitter.com/CAgovernor/status/1573441114153041921?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 23, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The text of the new law states, &#8220;This bill would specify that immigration enforcement, as defined, does not constitute an urgent health and safety need for those purposes, and would prohibit a government agency or department, law enforcement agency, commercial entity, or other person from obtaining, accessing, using, or otherwise disclosing, noncriminal history information maintained by the department, for the purpose of immigration enforcement.&#8221;
The change would prohibit the DMV from using migrant status as a factor in obtaining state identification.
The law follows a controversy in the state in 2018 in which 1,500 people were improperly registered to vote in California by the DMV, including non-citizens. Then-California Secretary of State Alex Padilla (D), who is now a U.S. Senator, said he did not know if any of those registered had voted in the state&#8217;s June 2018 primary election.
Approximately 1,500 people told the DMV they were ineligible or didn’t confirm their eligibility during the registration period, <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/local/2018/10/10/california-elections-official-does-not-know-if-non-citizens-have-voted/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to</a> the Associated Press. This group included at least one non-citizen living in the state in addition to other potential violations. People under 18 were also reportedly included, along with some who may have been ineligible due to a past criminal conviction.
Other bills signed in the package of laws for undocumented residents include a variety of measures on behalf of immigrants living in the state.
&#8220;Immigrant students will have improved access to in-state tuition at public colleges and universities, and to ESL courses at community colleges. Additionally, immigrant student borrowers will have more options to finance their college educations,&#8221; the news release added.
The controversial change as part of SB 1141 will offer in-state tuition at California public universities to qualified undocumented residents in the state, offering &#8220;exemption from payment of nonresident tuition.&#8221;
In addition, the new package of bills provides low-income residents, regardless of their immigration status, eligibility for legal assistance in civil matters affecting basic human needs.
Another bill included in the package, SB 972, changes the state&#8217;s retail food code to allow street vendors to more easily get local health permits &#8220;supporting better economic inclusion and opportunity.&#8221; The bill was introduced by state Democratic Sen. Lena Gonzalez (D-Long Beach).
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Street vendors reflect our rich cultural diversity and exemplify the best of what California has to offer.
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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/california" target="_blank" rel="noopener">California</a> is taking action to make it the first state in the country to get rid of natural gas water heaters and furnaces in houses.
A new proposal was <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-22/california-moves-to-ban-natural-gas-furnaces-and-heaters-by-2030" target="_blank" rel="noopener">approved</a> in a unanimous vote on Thursday by the California Air Resources Board. The state will prohibit the sale of new natural gas space heaters, as well as water heating equipment, by 2030, according to the new plan. The measure is part of efforts that California is moving toward in order to reduce emissions and meet federal air-quality baselines.
Now, California agencies must create a regulation for getting rid of the gas-fueled equipment that will be ultimately voted on in 2025. The measure does not incorporate gas stoves, even though around 50 municipalities around the state have reportedly created rules that either prohibit or frown upon using gas stoves in new construction.
&#8220;We need to take every action we can to deliver on our commitments to protect public health from the adverse impacts of air pollution, and this strategy identifies how we can do just that,&#8221; CARB Chair Liane Randolph <a href="https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/news/california-adopts-comprehensive-strategy-meet-federal-ozone-standard-over-next-15-years" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a <a href="https://thehill.com/changing-america/sustainability/energy/3658284-california-first-state-to-ban-natural-gas-heaters-and-furnaces/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>.
&#8220;While this strategy will clean the air for all Californians, it will also lead to reduced emissions in the many low-income and disadvantaged communities that experience greater levels of persistent air pollution. But to truly meet the ozone standard, California needs more federal action to clean up harmful diesel pollution from primarily federally controlled sources, from locomotives and ocean-going vessels to aircraft, which are all concentrated in communities that continue to bear the brunt of poor air quality. We simply cannot provide clean air to Californians without the federal government doing its part,” Randolph added.
Some believe this will create an outline for other states to follow.
“We’re really hopeful that this is the beginning of a domino effect and other states will follow California’s lead,” Leah Louis-Prescott, a senior associate at RMI, said, per Bloomberg.
As The San Francisco Chronicle <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/California-will-ban-the-sale-of-natural-gas-17460877.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pointed</a> out, regulators are pointing to heat pump technology as a main component of getting rid of the natural gas heaters. The method is used across Europe, but is not as widespread in the United States. The pumps work entirely off of electricity and essentially shift heat around.
However, the electric grid has been a problem in the state over the past several years. During a recent heat wave, residents were repeatedly asked to save power so as to avoid rolling blackouts across the state. The Golden State is also trying to entirely get rid of carbon emissions in its power grid by 2045. The quick shift to green energy has resulted in a less reliable electric grid in California.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/california-needed-natural-gas-during-heat-wave" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a> that the electric grid in the state needed natural gas for nearly half of its electricity production to reach peak demand levels during the heat wave.

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California Takes Steps To Ban Sale Of New Natural Gas Furnaces, Heaters

California Air Resources Board Takes Steps To Ban Sale Of New Natural Gas Furnaces, Heaters

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