distraction from him trying to veto any recent bills, and being against the billionaire tax. hes aiming for 2028 presidency.
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This appears to a pretty rare case of Newsome doing something he sincerly believes in. His advisors were telling him not to do this because it polled poorly among general election voters in the US. This is also something that he has fairly consistantly done. After a ballot initiative passed to speed up executions and the court challenges expired he issued a morratorium on executions and took the state execution chamber apart.
Between this and Vance distancing himself from Trump, I guess posturing for the 2028 presidential election is now in full swing.
Nearly any other Democrat would be better than Newsom.
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And, with this announcement, Newsome 2028 has begun. 😅
But, props where props are due. Death penalty gets handed out far too often and far too disproportionately, within a legal system that gets stuff wrong far too often.
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Broken clock something something
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I'm onboard with this. I'm not necessarily opposed to the death penalty, but our society has demonstrated again and again we are not applying this, the ultimate punishment, equally to everyone across our society. There are large class and race issues that appear to subject some groups to much greater death penalty judgments than other groups.
Unequal justice is injustice. Ban the death penalty.
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