Riggs Report: Replacement for Xavier Becerra still a mystery
Plum appointment as attorney general is on hold Share Updated: 9:07 AM PST Mar 4, 2021 Kevin Riggs
Plum appointment as attorney general is on hold Share Updated: 9:07 AM PST Mar 4, 2021
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Show Transcript FOR ONGOING BRIDGE REPAIRS. DEIRDRE: PRESIDENT BIDEN OFFERED A WELCOME UPDATE PROJECTING THERE WILL BE ENOUGH VACCINES TO COVER THE ENTIRE COUNTRY’S ADULT POPULATION BY THE END OF MAY. KEVIN RIGGS JOINS US. WHAT WILL THE IMPACT OF THAT BE? CERTAINLY CALIFORNIA WILL BE WATCHING THIS ONE CLOSELY GIVEN THE NEEDS HERE. ORIGINALLY THE PROJECTIONS WERE IT WOULD BE WELL INTO JULY NATIONALLY BEFORE ENOUGH VACCINES WOULD BE AVAILABLE FOR THE ADULT POPULATION. WHAT THIS NEW PROJECTION MEANS AS OTHER STATES WILL BE ABLE TO MOVE TEACHERS AND OTHER EDUCATIONAL WORKERS HIGHER UP ON THE ELIGIBILITY LIST FOR GETTING THOSE SHOTS AND THAT WILL PROVIDE A QUICKER PATH TO MEE
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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.
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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 Atty. Gen. 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.
“I’m certain the governor will be looking for an attorney general who shares his opposition to the death penalty,” said Cristine Soto DeBerry, executive director of Prosecutors Alliance of California, a group that opposes capital punishment. “I would hope that we would have an attorney general that’s seeking to move us toward abolit
Newsom expected to value death penalty opposition in a new California attorney general msn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from msn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.