Newsom s AG pick will test California s mood on criminal justice
OAKLAND Becoming California s top cop may have been the easy part. Keeping the job is another story.
Rob Bonta was Gov. Gavin Newsom s choice for state attorney general after eight years as a liberal Democratic state lawmaker. He was celebrated in March by police reformers and Asian American organizations as a groundbreaking pick at a time of social upheaval.
But Bonta has routinely been at odds with law enforcement, who remain powerful in California and could very well back a credible challenger. Whether Bonta survives next year in his first statewide election will be the ultimate test of whether this once tough-on-crime state has truly changed.
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