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CA Governor Reprieves All Condemned Murderers:  In an Executive Order announced today, newly elected California Governor Gavin Newsom has granted reprieves to all 737 murderers on the state's death row.   Sofia Bollag of the Sacramento Bee reports that the order comes just 2 1/2 years after California voters rejected Proposition 62, a death penalty repeal initiative Newsom supported, and adopted Proposition 66, an initiative to speed enforcement of the death penalty he opposed.  In a press conference he told reporters that the death penalty is "ineffective, irreversible, and Immoral."   While campaigning for the measure to repeal the death penalty in 2016, Newsom told The Modesto Bee editorial board he would "be accountable to the will of the voters," if he became governor, saying  "I would not get my personal opinions in the way of the public's right to make a determination of where they want to take us" on the death penalty.  OMG...he fibbed.  In an interview earlier this month CJLF Legal Director Kent Scheidegger told the Bee that the governor's clemency powers are designed to correct individual cases of injustice.  "It's not supposed to be a weapon for blocking the enforcement of the law that the people have passed just because the governor disagrees with it," he said.

Read more here: https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article227489844.html#storylink=cpy

Read more here: https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article227489844.html#storylink=cpy
 

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Is there any accounting of how much money was spent arranging and campaigning for Prop 66? Can any kind of suit be brought seeking restitution of these funds?

Have we not here executive fiat countermanding the pellucid will of the citizenry?
Where are the libertarians of California?

Gubernatorial despots could learn a thing from FDR:

FDR:
"That was asked me for four years while I was Governor of the State of New York…

My own personal belief is that I would like to see capital punishment abolished throughout this country, but, on the other hand, every law enforcement officer
with whom I have ever spoken…believes that capital punishment is a
definite and distinct deterrent of murder.

It is, primarily, a *legislative matter*. I am in the unfortunate position here, as I
was in Albany, of *having to pass* on the question of the death penalty."

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu

I don't think you could prove entitlement to restitution since prop 66 was so poorly drafted, and included no money to pay for the enormous costs of counsel it was never going to have its claimed effect in any event. Of course the later omission was intentional since an honest statement of the cost would have resulted in the proposition loosing. It was a scam on the public on multiple levels.

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