Tag: Sen. Jim Nielsen
California ‘Pre-Crime’ Bill to Root Out Potential Criminals
Gun Owners of California issued a dire warning this week about “pre-crime” legislation to prohibit people likely to commit a crime from owning a gun. SB 55 by Sen. Hannah Beth Jackson (D-Santa Barbara), would create a new class of...
Gov. Gavin Newsom Issues a Death Sentence on California’s Death Penalty
California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Wednesday that he is granting reprieves for all death penalty murderers on California’s death row, calling the death penalty “ineffective, irreversible and immoral.” He then signed an executive order putting a moratorium on the executions of...
California Legislature Kills Bills to Reclassify Violent Sexual Crimes as ‘Violent’
Six real criminal justice reform bills were killed last year in the California Legislature which would have expanded the definition of violent crime to include human trafficking, elder and dependent adult abuse, assault with a deadly weapon, rape, and other...
CA Attorney General Xavier Becerra Releases 2018 Armed Prohibited Persons Report
With California Attorney General Xavier Becerra planning on filing his 47th lawsuit against President Donald Trump, he appears more focused on the President than dealing with the 23,222 backlogged cases in the Armed Prohibited Persons System. The California Department of Justice released its...
Trump Threatens to Pull FEMA Funds from California
President Donald J. Trump threatened to withhold emergency FEMA funding for wildfire relief if California can’t get its act together and start doing proper forest management. “Billions of dollars are sent to the State of California for Forest fires that,...