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A death row inmate is escorted back to his East Block cell after spending time in the yard at San Quentin State Prison. (Gary Coronado/Los Angeles Times/TNS)
Newsom’s candidates for state AG critical of death penalty
LOS ANGELES Two years after Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered a moratorium on executions in California, he is preparing to appoint a state attorney general from a field of potential candidates that includes some of the state’s leading critics of the death penalty.
With current Attorney General Xavier Becerra up for Senate confirmation as President Biden’s secretary of Health and Human Services, criminal justice reform activists have recommended for the job candidates including a district attorney who has stopped seeking the death penalty in murder cases and elected officials who have backed unsuccessful ballot measures to repeal capital punishment.
Ninth Circuit to Hear Case Challenging California’s Magazine Ban En Banc Ammoland Inc. Posted on IMG NRA-ILA
U.S.A. -(AmmoLand.com)- On February 25th, the Ninth Circuit granted en banc review of an NRA-ILA-backed lawsuit challenging California’s ban on magazines containing more than ten rounds.
This case challenges California Penal Code §32310, which was amended in 2016, to outright ban magazines capable of holding more than ten rounds. The NRA filed suit against California in 2017 and won a favorable decision at the district court level in 2019. California appealed to the Ninth Circuit, and in August of 2020, a three-judge panel ruled that the statute was unconstitutional.
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February 26, 2021
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) argued on Thursday that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) downgraded the risk of cancer from use of âone of the nationâs most popular fumigants,â dichloropropene (1,3-D), which is produced by Dow Chemical under the brand Telone and ignored science showing that the pesticide does cause cancer.
According to a press release from PEER, the EPA downgraded its classification in 2020 from âlikely to be carcinogenic to humansâ to âsuggestive evidence of carcinogenic potential.â Telone is reportedly used as a soil fumigant and a nematicide. PEER asked for an examination of the downgrade, along with the âcomposition of (the) EPAâs Cancer Assessment Review Committee and the rigor of its procedures.â
The man who Biden wants to be his health secretary, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, is trying to get the ban on high capacity magazines reinstated in California after judges ruled in…