The October 12 deadline has passed for Gavin Newsom to sign or veto this legislative session’s handiwork. It’s hard to establish a theme for the governor’s decisions, except that he clearly was mindful of national public perceptions as he mulls a presidential run.
For instance, he vetoed five reparations-related bills that would have given the descendants of slaves priority treatment in university admissions, business licenses and access to a state first-time home-loan program. As KQED noted, lawmakers tailored the bills to benefit descendants of enslaved people as a means to get around California’s prohibition on racial quotas. Newsom correctly viewed some of these measures as legally dubious.
Newsom also vetoed an overly expansive and First-Amendment-threatening measure (Senate Bill 771) that would have created “a civil action against a social media platform … that aids and abets the commission of, conspires with a person to violate … specified civil rights and hate crime laws.” Essentially, the bill would have stripped the publisher status from large social-media companies – and plunged the state in a losing free-speech battle. It also would have annoyed some of the companies whose political support Newsom needs.
The governor, however, doubled down on gun control even though at least one of the four bills he signed will surely launch the state into a Second Amendment court battle. That measure, Assembly Bill 1127, bans the sale of new Glock guns because the new design comes with a switch that can allow them to be turned into automatic weapons. That switch already is illegal in California, so this is an obvious attempt to force one manufacturer to change its design.
Newsom signed a variety of other dubious laws, including one that bans sweepstakes-style online games. It’s a sop to the state’s tribes, which have flexed their muscle to shut down gaming competitors. Newsom also foolishly (but not unexpectedly) signed a measure that will let Bay Area transit agencies place a sales tax on the ballot to help prop up these systems, which have lost ridership and continually overspend their generous budgets.
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As Capitol observer Chris Micheli explained, Newsom this year signed 794 bills and vetoed 123. That’s a lot of new laws and, as usual, most of them aren’t good ones. Voters will ultimately decide if the governor pays a political price for any of these signings or vetoes.
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