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It is concerned about a “dangerous legal precedent” for other states to enact bounty-hunting laws. Collective is a central hub for connecting California’s arts and culture communities with both the public and one another, by sharing the vast and varied creative assets available within our state. The American Civil Liberties Union argues that “replicating the reprehensible Texas model only serves to legitimise and promote it”. We are 10 million Democrats strong, powered by the dreamers and doers of the Golden. Some worry about the consequences of copying a mechanism which even the press release for the Californian gun law describes as “wrongheaded”. The California Democratic Party is the nations largest statewide party. It is already in effect illegal to buy assault weapons or sell guns to under 21-year-olds in California, so the law is mostly symbolic. Whereas Texas’s bounty-hunter law quickly limited access to abortion, California’s is “unlikely to have any significant impact”, predicts Adam Winkler, of the University of California, Los Angeles. But after its recent decision to scrap the constitutional right to abortion, the court could rule against California’s bounty-hunter law without restoring abortion access in Texas (where a near-blanket ban goes into effect on August 25th). Mr Newsom reckons if the Supreme Court were to find California’s law invalid, it would have to throw out the one in Texas, which is similarly structured. The “bounty hunter” construct empowers individuals, rather than the state, to sue. Second, California is pushing the envelope with gun rules, creating potential “showdowns” with the Supreme Court, says Ken Miller, of Claremont McKenna College. Mr Newsom is rumoured to be considering a run for president in 2024, although he denies it. Guns are a winning issue among Democratic voters, who favour more controls. First, it shows how Mr Newsom is trying to position himself as a leading progressive voice nationally. The Golden State’s new “bounty-hunter” law is important for two reasons. Mr Newsom’s office likes to remind people that in recent years California has had a lower per-head death rate in mass shootings than many southern states with more permissive gun laws. Watch the official music video for Dani California by Red Hot Chili Peppers from the album Stadium Arcadium. This site has been upgraded to assure you a positive Thomson Reuters Westlaw.

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It is a direct attack on Greg Abbott, Texas’s governor, who has pushed restrictions on abortion while loosening those on gun sales. Welcome to the newly enhanced site for the California Code of Regulations. He has run an advertisement in Texan newspapers trumpeting California’s efforts to keep people safe from gun violence. “If they’re going to open that door…to put women’s lives at risk, I’ll do it to save people’s lives any day of the week,” Mr Newsom told The Economist.