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The damage caused by 3M, DuPont and other manufacturers of PFAS is nothing short of staggering, and without drastic action, California will be dealing with the harms of these toxic chemicals for generations. Today’s lawsuit is the result of a years-long investigation that found that the manufacturers of PFAS knowingly violated state consumer protection and environmental laws. 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"content": "\u003cp>California’s attorney general is often described as the state’s top prosecutor, but that shorthand doesn’t do the position justice. At least not according to Rob Bonta, the current holder of that office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Gov. Gavin Newsom appointed him to the role in March 2021, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-voter-guide-2022/attorney-general/rob-bonta/\">Bonta has broadened the scope and emphasis of the Department of Justice\u003c/a> into areas of the law once considered the principal domain of local prosecutors, elected officials and private litigants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taking on the role of\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/joegarofoli/article/california-housing-rules-17188267.php\"> housing enforcer\u003c/a>, Bonta has threatened lawsuits against apartment-averse cities, while issuing guidance to locals on where they can permit new construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With new bureaus and empowered by new laws, his office now serves as an investigative unit for\u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-05-12/racial-justice-bureau-to-fight-asian-racism-extremism\"> discriminatory law enforcement\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2022/06/police-shootings-unarmed-civilians/\">police shootings of unarmed civilians\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just last month, Bonta announced the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletters/2022/09/california-attorney-general-gun-violence/\">creation of a new office\u003c/a> tasked with researching and disseminating gun violence prevention tactics. The office still only exists on paper, but the proposal itself says a lot about Bonta’s view of his office’s expansive domain. For a department known for its prosecutors and its gun-toting officers, academic research is an unusual pivot.[aside postID=news_11926496 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58812_IMG_4401-qut.jpg']And as Los Angeles weathers \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletters/whatmatters/2022/10/california-pig-law-supreme-court/\">scandal\u003c/a> after \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-09-20/kuehl-warrant-order\">scandal\u003c/a>, Bonta has now stepped in in lieu of local prosecutors, announcing that his office will investigate potential voting rights violations during \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletters/whatmatters/2022/10/la-city-council-racism-redistricting/\">the local redistricting process\u003c/a>, a subject at the center of racist conversations that forced the \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-10-12/la-me-nury-martinez-resigns\">City Council president to resign Wednesday\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta, who visited CalMatters’ office for an hour-long interview this week, said he’s never been one to limit himself to just a handful of issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early in his political career, he said he was told to “focus on a handful of things — maybe one, two or three — make those your signature issues, get known for those and make a difference there,” he said. “I’ve never, ever followed that advice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a contrast with Bonta’s opponent in the November 8 \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-voter-guide-2022/attorney-general/\">race for attorney general\u003c/a>, former federal prosecutor and longtime defense attorney \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-voter-guide-2022/attorney-general/nathan-hochman/\">Nathan Hochman\u003c/a>. A Republican from Los Angeles, Hochman has spent the campaign\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2022/04/nathan-hochman-california-attorney-general/\"> stressing his apolitical instincts\u003c/a> and his emphasis on criminal enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta, a former state Assemblymember who is now asking voters to elect him to his current position for the first time, embraces the notion that the attorney general’s work isn’t just done in the courtroom, but in the Legislature and the political arena, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are five other highlights from our conversation with Bonta.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>1. Housing: ‘Not optional’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Few areas of the law bear Bonta’s mark as indelibly as housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of his first acts as top prosecutor was to create a “housing strike force.” That was over the \u003ca href=\"https://www.calcities.org/news/post/2021/11/04/joining-forces-not-strike-forces-needed-to-house-californians\">strenuous opposition of the League of California Cities\u003c/a>, the municipal government lobby, but something that Bonta calls one of his most significant accomplishments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That strike force has already struck a handful of times. Earlier this year, Bonta threatened the cities of \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/attachments/press-docs/AG%20Letter%20to%20Pasadena%20re%20SB%209%20Urgency%20Ordinance.pdf\">Pasadena\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2022/02/california-zoning-housing-podcast/\">Woodside\u003c/a> with legal action for trying to avoid \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2022/04/duplex-housing-resistance/\">denser development requirements\u003c/a>. His office has thrown its legal weight behind apartment projects facing local opposition in \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/eastbay/article/Why-California-s-attorney-general-weighed-into-17364584.php\">Livermore\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://voiceofsandiego.org/2022/03/30/encinitas-in-hot-water-again/\">Encinitas\u003c/a>. Just this week he rushed to the defense of a \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-files-brief-defense-homekey-program-funded-project\">supportive housing project\u003c/a> in Marin and \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/10/10/new-limits-recommended-for-building-homes-in-high-risk-wildfire-areas-in-california/\">rolled out new guidelines\u003c/a> for development in the wildfire-prone areas. Those development recommendations lack legal force, but they reinforce his office’s unprecedented emphasis on housing policy.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Rob Bonta, attorney general, California\"]‘(They said) focus on a handful of things — maybe one, two or three — make those your signature issues, get known for those and make a difference there … I’ve never, ever followed that advice.’[/pullquote]Though prior attorneys general in California have enforced housing laws, none has done so quite so deliberately or aggressively as Bonta. He credited his experience as a legislator in the housing-constrained Bay Area and said that his office is simply responding to the escalating severity of the affordable-housing crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We wanted to put a stake in the ground, to send a message to the state that there are laws in the state of California that are not optional. They must be followed, including by other governments, including cities and counties, who shouldn’t be calling themselves, wrongfully, mountain lion sanctuaries to escape the law,” said Bonta, in \u003ca href=\"https://www.almanacnews.com/news/2022/02/07/woodside-reverses-course-on-controversial-mountain-lion-moratorium-on-housing-projects\">reference to the city of Woodside\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People say, ‘I never thought of the AG as someone who could be involved in housing,’” he said. “We enforce all laws, not just criminal laws, but also civil laws, including housing laws.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>2. Redefining ‘violent crime’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 2016, California voters passed Proposition 57 to make it easier for incarcerated people who committed nonviolent crimes to apply for early release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the law defined “violent” felonies with just \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?sectionNum=667.5.&lawCode=PEN\">23 offenses\u003c/a>. Missing from that list are domestic violence, human trafficking and certain types of assault and rape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conservatives have been using those omissions as a \u003ca href=\"https://kmph.com/news/local/why-opposition-voted-down-sen-groves-human-trafficking-bill-and-local-reaction-about-it\">cudgel\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/election-2020-guide/proposition-20-crime/\">to\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2022/05/anne-marie-schubert-attorney-general/\">beat\u003c/a> “criminal justice reform”-aligned Democrats ever since. In the past, Bonta has hinted at \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/JeremyBWhite/status/1499552457969389570?s=20&t=Uv-MYDlUPGRjjYr8jNUM6A\">possible tweaks\u003c/a> to the law that he would support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the CalMatters interview, he was more explicit: “Domestic violence, human trafficking, rape of an unconscious person, all of those should be discussed, and potentially changed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>3. Death penalty and cash bail, reconsidered\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Unlike Hochman, Bonta has a lengthy political record as a legislator. And it’s a telling one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2018, he co-authored a bill to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2018/08/california-bail-reform-splinters-left/\">ban county courts from setting cash bail\u003c/a> for people awaiting trial, instead leaving the decision about whether a person should go free or not to a judge using “risk-assessment tools.” That bill was signed into law. But \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/california-election-2020/2020/11/what-the-failure-of-prop-25-means-for-racial-justice-in-california/\">voters nixed that idea in a 2020 referendum\u003c/a> funded by the bail bond industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That public rebuke hasn’t changed Bonta’s mind. He argued that voters may have been wary of the risk-assessment system that would have replaced the current system, which he acknowledged was “not perfect.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But cash bail, he insisted, remains unpopular — and manifestly unfair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe that the current bail system punishes poor people for being poor, makes the jailhouse door swing open and closed based on how much money you have in your pocket, and judges you based on the size of your wallet, instead of the size of your risk,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While in the Assembly, Bonta also supported a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200ACA12\">proposed constitutional amendment\u003c/a> to officially end the death penalty in California. That’s despite the fact that California voters have \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2022/02/california-death-penalty-end/\">repeatedly turned down that opportunity\u003c/a>, including as recently as 2016. California hasn’t executed a prisoner since 2006, and in 2019 Newsom declared a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2019/03/gavin-newsom-halts-executions-california/\">moratorium\u003c/a> on the practice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta said that if a capital punishment ban were to return to the ballot, he would support it. But he also stressed that, for now, his personal views do not trump current law.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>4. Playing a ‘dangerous game,’ but ‘responsibly’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Last year, before the U.S. Supreme Court \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/abortion-rights/2022/06/california-abortion-roe-ruling/\">ended the federal constitutional right to an abortion entirely\u003c/a> in June, Texas lawmakers came up with a clever way to effectively ban most abortions in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rather than have law enforcement enforce the restriction on ending a pregnancy after six weeks, a \u003ca href=\"https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/87R/billtext/pdf/SB00008F.pdf\">state law gave individual Texans the right to sue health care providers\u003c/a>, patients or anyone who “aided and abetted” an abortion, with the potential promise of a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2022/08/bounty-hunting-abortion-guns/\">$10,000 bounty\u003c/a> per violation. Because the state wasn’t enforcing the policy, the law was \u003ca href=\"https://www.scotusblog.com/2021/11/court-seems-inclined-to-let-abortion-providers-pursue-their-challenge-to-texas-law/\">harder to challenge in court\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the Supreme Court let the Texas law stand, Newsom clapped back, proposing a similarly structured bounty bill aimed at those who \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletters/whatmatters/2021/12/texas-abortion-ban-newsom-assault-weapons/\">violate certain California gun laws\u003c/a>. Bonta, whose office \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/attachments/press-docs/Brief%20of%20Mass.%20et%20al.%20in%2021-463%20and%2021-588.pdfA_.pdf\">vociferously opposed\u003c/a> the Texas law, helped craft the California version and was one of its most vocal public champions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reporters and commentators have described the California rejoinder as “\u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/2022/7/25/23277211/supreme-court-gavin-newsom-sb-8-abortion-guns-california-assault-rifle-law\">trolling\u003c/a>,” a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.thedailybeast.com/californias-new-gun-bill-is-bad-law-and-dumb-politics\">legislative stunt\u003c/a>” and a blue state’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/gavin-newsom-taunts-texas-on-guns-abortion-sb8-11660154256\">taunt\u003c/a>” of a conservative Supreme Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta insisted that the law is an earnest effort to “save lives,” but also acknowledged that it was meant to call the high court’s bluff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re using it in the best way that it can be used, in a way that advances California values,” he said. “But it’s dangerous. It’s a dangerous game. We’re using it responsibly. Now others can use it like Texas, and maybe the Supreme Court will look at the landscape of how this approach is being used and try to correct it. If that happens, that’s fine, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>5. Ready to try again on concealed carry\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The most high-profile setback of Bonta’s tenure to date was the failure of a bill his office wrote that would have made it more difficult for Californians to apply for the right to carry concealed firearms and that would have placed new restrictions on where they can take those guns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The failed proposal was a response to another \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/criminal-justice/2022/06/california-gun-laws-supreme-court/\">controversial decision by the U.S. Supreme Court\u003c/a> in June. This one barred states from requiring concealed carry applicants to prove that they have a compelling need. Bonta’s proposed legislative workaround would have instead introduced “objective” restrictions, such as a prolonged training course requirement and a psychological assessment. It also designated arenas and other public gathering places and most private businesses as gun-free “sensitive” places.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite arm-twisting by Bonta himself, the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/california-legislature/2022/09/california-concealed-carry-bill/\">bill died in the final hours of the legislative session\u003c/a>, the victim of law enforcement opposition, an overly confident legislative strategy and rifts within the Assembly’s Democratic ranks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta said his sense of urgency remains as acute as ever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There will be, and there have been, huge spikes in the number of applicants,” he said. “We believe that it’s important to have a constitutional regime that allows for those who should constitutionally have a concealed carry weapon to have (one), but to take the steps to make sure that we are doing everything constitutionally permissible to keep people safe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta echoed comments made by the bill’s author, state Sen. Anthony Portantino, a Glendale Democrat, who said that he would like to see the bill, or some version of it, introduced as soon as the next session begins in December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That plan hit a possible speed bump late last month. Where California’s bill failed, a similar proposal in New York was signed into law, only for a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/06/nyregion/judge-blocks-ny-gun-law.html\">federal judge to rule this month\u003c/a> that its long list of “sensitive places” is unconstitutional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So we need to look at that, and maybe it is over-broad,” Bonta said, “and we should take that to heart … and respond appropriately with any new (similar) bill.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Though prior attorneys general in California have enforced housing laws, none has done so quite so deliberately or aggressively as Bonta. He credited his experience as a legislator in the housing-constrained Bay Area and said that his office is simply responding to the escalating severity of the affordable-housing crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We wanted to put a stake in the ground, to send a message to the state that there are laws in the state of California that are not optional. They must be followed, including by other governments, including cities and counties, who shouldn’t be calling themselves, wrongfully, mountain lion sanctuaries to escape the law,” said Bonta, in \u003ca href=\"https://www.almanacnews.com/news/2022/02/07/woodside-reverses-course-on-controversial-mountain-lion-moratorium-on-housing-projects\">reference to the city of Woodside\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People say, ‘I never thought of the AG as someone who could be involved in housing,’” he said. “We enforce all laws, not just criminal laws, but also civil laws, including housing laws.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>2. Redefining ‘violent crime’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 2016, California voters passed Proposition 57 to make it easier for incarcerated people who committed nonviolent crimes to apply for early release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the law defined “violent” felonies with just \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?sectionNum=667.5.&lawCode=PEN\">23 offenses\u003c/a>. Missing from that list are domestic violence, human trafficking and certain types of assault and rape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conservatives have been using those omissions as a \u003ca href=\"https://kmph.com/news/local/why-opposition-voted-down-sen-groves-human-trafficking-bill-and-local-reaction-about-it\">cudgel\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/election-2020-guide/proposition-20-crime/\">to\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2022/05/anne-marie-schubert-attorney-general/\">beat\u003c/a> “criminal justice reform”-aligned Democrats ever since. In the past, Bonta has hinted at \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/JeremyBWhite/status/1499552457969389570?s=20&t=Uv-MYDlUPGRjjYr8jNUM6A\">possible tweaks\u003c/a> to the law that he would support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the CalMatters interview, he was more explicit: “Domestic violence, human trafficking, rape of an unconscious person, all of those should be discussed, and potentially changed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>3. Death penalty and cash bail, reconsidered\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Unlike Hochman, Bonta has a lengthy political record as a legislator. And it’s a telling one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2018, he co-authored a bill to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2018/08/california-bail-reform-splinters-left/\">ban county courts from setting cash bail\u003c/a> for people awaiting trial, instead leaving the decision about whether a person should go free or not to a judge using “risk-assessment tools.” That bill was signed into law. But \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/california-election-2020/2020/11/what-the-failure-of-prop-25-means-for-racial-justice-in-california/\">voters nixed that idea in a 2020 referendum\u003c/a> funded by the bail bond industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That public rebuke hasn’t changed Bonta’s mind. He argued that voters may have been wary of the risk-assessment system that would have replaced the current system, which he acknowledged was “not perfect.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But cash bail, he insisted, remains unpopular — and manifestly unfair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe that the current bail system punishes poor people for being poor, makes the jailhouse door swing open and closed based on how much money you have in your pocket, and judges you based on the size of your wallet, instead of the size of your risk,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While in the Assembly, Bonta also supported a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200ACA12\">proposed constitutional amendment\u003c/a> to officially end the death penalty in California. That’s despite the fact that California voters have \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2022/02/california-death-penalty-end/\">repeatedly turned down that opportunity\u003c/a>, including as recently as 2016. California hasn’t executed a prisoner since 2006, and in 2019 Newsom declared a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2019/03/gavin-newsom-halts-executions-california/\">moratorium\u003c/a> on the practice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta said that if a capital punishment ban were to return to the ballot, he would support it. But he also stressed that, for now, his personal views do not trump current law.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>4. Playing a ‘dangerous game,’ but ‘responsibly’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Last year, before the U.S. Supreme Court \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/abortion-rights/2022/06/california-abortion-roe-ruling/\">ended the federal constitutional right to an abortion entirely\u003c/a> in June, Texas lawmakers came up with a clever way to effectively ban most abortions in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rather than have law enforcement enforce the restriction on ending a pregnancy after six weeks, a \u003ca href=\"https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/87R/billtext/pdf/SB00008F.pdf\">state law gave individual Texans the right to sue health care providers\u003c/a>, patients or anyone who “aided and abetted” an abortion, with the potential promise of a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2022/08/bounty-hunting-abortion-guns/\">$10,000 bounty\u003c/a> per violation. Because the state wasn’t enforcing the policy, the law was \u003ca href=\"https://www.scotusblog.com/2021/11/court-seems-inclined-to-let-abortion-providers-pursue-their-challenge-to-texas-law/\">harder to challenge in court\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the Supreme Court let the Texas law stand, Newsom clapped back, proposing a similarly structured bounty bill aimed at those who \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletters/whatmatters/2021/12/texas-abortion-ban-newsom-assault-weapons/\">violate certain California gun laws\u003c/a>. Bonta, whose office \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/attachments/press-docs/Brief%20of%20Mass.%20et%20al.%20in%2021-463%20and%2021-588.pdfA_.pdf\">vociferously opposed\u003c/a> the Texas law, helped craft the California version and was one of its most vocal public champions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reporters and commentators have described the California rejoinder as “\u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/2022/7/25/23277211/supreme-court-gavin-newsom-sb-8-abortion-guns-california-assault-rifle-law\">trolling\u003c/a>,” a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.thedailybeast.com/californias-new-gun-bill-is-bad-law-and-dumb-politics\">legislative stunt\u003c/a>” and a blue state’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/gavin-newsom-taunts-texas-on-guns-abortion-sb8-11660154256\">taunt\u003c/a>” of a conservative Supreme Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta insisted that the law is an earnest effort to “save lives,” but also acknowledged that it was meant to call the high court’s bluff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re using it in the best way that it can be used, in a way that advances California values,” he said. “But it’s dangerous. It’s a dangerous game. We’re using it responsibly. Now others can use it like Texas, and maybe the Supreme Court will look at the landscape of how this approach is being used and try to correct it. If that happens, that’s fine, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>5. Ready to try again on concealed carry\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The most high-profile setback of Bonta’s tenure to date was the failure of a bill his office wrote that would have made it more difficult for Californians to apply for the right to carry concealed firearms and that would have placed new restrictions on where they can take those guns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The failed proposal was a response to another \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/criminal-justice/2022/06/california-gun-laws-supreme-court/\">controversial decision by the U.S. Supreme Court\u003c/a> in June. This one barred states from requiring concealed carry applicants to prove that they have a compelling need. Bonta’s proposed legislative workaround would have instead introduced “objective” restrictions, such as a prolonged training course requirement and a psychological assessment. It also designated arenas and other public gathering places and most private businesses as gun-free “sensitive” places.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite arm-twisting by Bonta himself, the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/california-legislature/2022/09/california-concealed-carry-bill/\">bill died in the final hours of the legislative session\u003c/a>, the victim of law enforcement opposition, an overly confident legislative strategy and rifts within the Assembly’s Democratic ranks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta said his sense of urgency remains as acute as ever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There will be, and there have been, huge spikes in the number of applicants,” he said. “We believe that it’s important to have a constitutional regime that allows for those who should constitutionally have a concealed carry weapon to have (one), but to take the steps to make sure that we are doing everything constitutionally permissible to keep people safe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta echoed comments made by the bill’s author, state Sen. 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We saw the bigoted words of our former president turn a trickle of hate into a flood that remains with us.’[/pullquote]“The pandemic gave way to an epidemic of hate. We saw the bigoted words of our former president turn a trickle of hate into a flood that remains with us,” Bonta noted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta also announced the creation of a statewide hate crime coordinator position to be the point person between the California Department of Justice and local law enforcement officials to oversee and assist with the reporting and prosecution of hate crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta was joined by several representatives of anti-hate groups, including Jimmie Jackson, director of the North Area branch of the NAACP, which includes Hawaii and parts of Northern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are all tired of seeing our brothers and sisters of color being targets of hatred, discrimination and racism,” Jackson said. “And we are all in this fight to stay. We’re all in this fight together. 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He’s campaigned as a middle-of-the-road, reasonable Republican and is hoping his more moderate positions, including support for greater police funding and more investment in social services, can eat into Bonta’s strong Democratic base.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hochman has already raised more than $2 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom appointed Bonta attorney general last year, after Xavier Becerra vacated the post to lead the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. As a longtime Oakland assemblymember, Bonta embraced the criminal justice reforms backed by voters over the past two decades, and even authored a\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11687917/california-assembly-approves-bail-reform-over-opposition-from-civil-rights-groups\"> bail reform law\u003c/a>, which was ultimately \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11845036/voters-reject-proposition-25-preserving-cash-bail-in-california\">overturned by voters\u003c/a> in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta has the backing of the Democratic Party and virtually every elected Democratic official in California. But in a year where voters are anxious about crime rates and Democrats have been on the defensive on criminal justice reform, he enters the general election campaign more vulnerable than he’d like. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Law and order was on the ballot,” Cristine Soto DeBerry, executive director of the Prosecutors Alliance, a progressive criminal justice group in California, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11916667/recapping-californias-primary-election\">told KQED’s Political Breakdown\u003c/a>. “Schubert ran as that candidate. She said, ‘I’m going to end the chaos in San Francisco and Los Angeles. I will take over those offices.’ Her entire platform was a critique of those two cities. She didn’t break double digits.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early was Bonta’s biggest hope: An anti-abortion, pro-Trump Los Angeles attorney who subscribes to the unfounded belief that the 2020 presidential election was stolen. Unions backing Bonta’s campaign poured more than $2 million into an independent committee that spent most of its cash running ads propping up Early — viewing him as an opponent who would be easy to steamroll in a deep blue state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Early raised only a little over $300,000 for his campaign — a sum that pales in comparison to the more than $7 million Bonta has amassed over the past year, $3 million of which he still has on hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Hochman, a former U.S. attorney and defense lawyer who received the state GOP party endorsement, was leading Early Tuesday night. He’s campaigned as a middle-of-the-road, reasonable Republican and is hoping his more moderate positions, including support for greater police funding and more investment in social services, can eat into Bonta’s strong Democratic base.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hochman has already raised more than $2 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom appointed Bonta attorney general last year, after Xavier Becerra vacated the post to lead the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. As a longtime Oakland assemblymember, Bonta embraced the criminal justice reforms backed by voters over the past two decades, and even authored a\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11687917/california-assembly-approves-bail-reform-over-opposition-from-civil-rights-groups\"> bail reform law\u003c/a>, which was ultimately \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11845036/voters-reject-proposition-25-preserving-cash-bail-in-california\">overturned by voters\u003c/a> in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta has the backing of the Democratic Party and virtually every elected Democratic official in California. But in a year where voters are anxious about crime rates and Democrats have been on the defensive on criminal justice reform, he enters the general election campaign more vulnerable than he’d like. That’s one of the reasons his allies worked so hard to box Schubert out of the race, viewing her No Party Preference affiliation as a threat in the general election, in a state where there are nearly as many No Party Preference voters (5 million) as Republicans (5.2 million).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>“\u003c/b>I think the statewide results are really encouraging,” Soto DeBerry said. “In San Francisco, on the same ballot where people said we’re \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11916212/chesa-boudin-recall-sf-voters-on-track-to-oust-district-attorney\">going to make a change\u003c/a> in our district attorney, they voted overwhelmingly for the attorney general that has espoused very strong reform credentials.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And with the contest now set between the two major political parties, Bonta is likely breathing easier, as there are more than 10 million registered Democrats in the state, and no Republican has won statewide office since 2006.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The race for attorney general in California has in some ways become a referendum on the broader tussle over whether criminal justice reform has gone too far in the state — and what the best course is to ensure public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"criminal-justice-reform\"]The incumbent, Democratic Attorney General Rob Bonta, was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11865953/newsom-names-east-bay-assemblyman-rob-bonta-as-californias-new-attorney-general\">appointed to the role last year by Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003c/a>after Xavier Becerra vacated the post to become secretary of health and human services in the Biden administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta, who did not respond to repeated requests to talk to KQED for this story, is facing three challengers from the right: Sacramento District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert, a former Republican who is now registered as no party preference, as well as Republican lawyers Nathan Hochman and Eric Early. The four appear together in the June primary, and the top two vote-getters will face each other in the November general election. (A fifth candidate — Dan Kapelovitz, of the Green party — also is on the primary ballot.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The contest follows \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11906253/violent-crime-soared-during-the-pandemic-but-does-the-political-debate-reflect-the-data\">several years of increasing crime rates, both in California and across the nation\u003c/a>, a trend that’s refocused attention on many of the criminal justice reforms Bonta championed as a lawmaker in the state Assembly, and one that’s provided an opening for more conservative law-and-order candidates in this deep-blue state. All three of Bonta’s challengers from the right have seized on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11374335/lawmakers-aim-to-limit-cash-bail-say-it-punishes-poor-for-being-poor\">his support of policies like eliminating cash bail\u003c/a> and softening criminal sentencing laws as proof that he’s not the best candidate for this moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED interviewed the three candidates to find out more about why they are running and what their priorities would be as the state’s top law enforcement officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Eric Early: The pro-Trumper\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11915646\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/early-1.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11915646\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/early-1.jpeg\" alt=\"A man stands at a podium gesticulating with his hands.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"867\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/early-1.jpeg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/early-1-800x578.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/early-1-1020x737.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/early-1-160x116.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California attorney general candidate Eric Early campaigns at an event at the Knott’s Berry Farm Hotel near Anaheim in March. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Eric Early campaign)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The most conservative and Trump-like candidate in the race, Early runs a business and entertainment law firm and hosts a Friday night talk radio show on the Los Angeles AM station KABC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s an unapologetic supporter of the former president and claims, despite all evidence to the contrary, that the 2020 election was stolen and dismisses well-documented reports of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential race as a conspiracy theory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As some of his top credentials, Early cites his unsuccessful lawsuits \u003ca href=\"https://www.independent.com/2021/12/17/appeal-court-sides-with-just-communities-and-sbusd-on-appeal-of-fair-education-lawsuit/\">against a school over critical race theory\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://wvmetronews.com/2022/02/03/federal-judge-dismisses-don-blankenships-defamation-claims-against-media-companies/\">against news organizations over their coverage\u003c/a> of a Republican mining magnate and candidate for U.S. Senate. He also ran for Congress in 2020, challenging Trump critic Adam Schiff for the seat representing a large swath of Los Angeles County — and lost by \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/11/03/us/elections/results-california-house-district-28.html\">some 55 points\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early says he’s running for attorney general on a key bread-and-butter issue: public safety. California is headed in the wrong direction, he argues, and insists he’s the one to fix things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“First thing I would do on Day One is I would call a meeting,” Early said. “I would call in all the sheriffs, all the DAs, all the police chiefs, and we would have a roundtable discussion for as long as we needed to, because I want to hear from the experts on what they believe is needed to get to the bottom of what I call the creation of a criminal’s paradise here in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early said he would use the bully pulpit to help push changes to laws he sees as problematic, \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_47,_Reduced_Penalties_for_Some_Crimes_Initiative_(2014)#:~:text=Source-,Overview,a%20felony%20to%20a%20misdemeanor.\">including Proposition 47\u003c/a>, the 2014 ballot measure that lowered most drug possession charges to misdemeanors and raised the legal threshold to prosecute felony shoplifting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a lawyer, Early says, he has helped scores of people targeted by mortgage fraudsters. He also served as lead attorney in the unsuccessful effort to recall Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he’s never served in government — something he considers an asset.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Eric Early, candidate for attorney general\"]‘I firmly believe government is the reason for our failures. It’s time for somebody from out of government with my experience and background to get in and do what I can to help the people.’[/pullquote]“I firmly believe government is the reason for our failures. It’s time for somebody from out of government with my experience and background to get in and do what I can to help the people. And you know, I fight for all law-abiding citizens of all races, creeds, colors and sexual orientation,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Early is anti-abortion rights, his spokesperson says he will uphold all laws, even those he disagrees with. But Early also told KQED he would use the office to investigate laws he believes could be unconstitutional, specifically noting that former Attorney General Jerry Brown \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Brown-first-in-decades-to-go-against-voters-3179147.php\">refused to defend California’s ban on same-sex marriage in 2008\u003c/a>, after voters passed Proposition 8.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early also indicated he might not consider all of California’s gun laws constitutional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The attorney general can look at whether or not a law should even be enforced if it is unconstitutional. The attorney general absolutely can support our Second Amendment right, which is what I do,” he said, without citing any specific state gun restrictions he was particularly concerned with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, the attorney general’s office has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-06-10/california-attorney-general-appeal-supporting-assault-weapon-ban\">in constant litigation\u003c/a> defending the state’s restrictive gun laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while Early is encouraging voters to cast their ballots for him in any format allowed — including by mail — he also said he has questions about the integrity of the state’s entire voting system, opposes universal vote-by-mail rules, and questions the security of electronic voting machines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I get this job for attorney general, I will investigate our election apparatus,” he said, echoing a pledge made by pro-Trump candidates nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those ties to Trumpism make Early look like an easy target for Democrats in a state that overwhelmingly elected President Biden — groups backing Bonta have gone so far as to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Why-backers-of-Democratic-Attorney-General-Rob-17163311.php\">run ads promoting Early\u003c/a> in the hopes that he will be the easiest of the three candidates to beat in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Nathan Hochman: ‘The hard middle’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11915624\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1050px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/hochman4.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11915624\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/hochman4.jpeg\" alt=\"A man stands at a podium and speaks into a microphone.\" width=\"1050\" height=\"844\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/hochman4.jpeg 1050w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/hochman4-800x643.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/hochman4-1020x820.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/hochman4-160x129.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1050px) 100vw, 1050px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California attorney general candidate Nathan Hochman speaks in May to a Republican women’s group in Southern California. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Nathan Hochman campaign)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nathan Hochman says he may be a Republican and a former federal prosecutor, but hopes voters won’t pigeonhole him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My message is bipartisan. It’s commonsense. It’s pragmatic. It’s what, if you were sitting around trying to figure out the solutions to these problems, most people would come up with,” he said. “And that’s where I want to go. The hard middle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A native Californian, Hochman says his career as a U.S. attorney and private defense lawyer has spanned the gamut from going after tax cheats, polluters and dirty cops to prosecuting political corruption and defending people accused of white-collar crimes. He notes he’s the only candidate who has been both a prosecutor and a defense attorney; he also served on the Los Angeles Ethics Commission for five years, including as its president for one of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hochman, for example, says he doesn’t think everyone needs to be locked up and that California should invest in alternatives to incarceration, including diversion programs, home detention and community service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Bonta’s other challengers, Hochman cites public safety as his top issue and is critical of major criminal justice reforms, including Proposition 47. He also says he wants to use existing laws to prosecute fentanyl dealers and crack down on human trafficking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he says California should invest in both a strong police force and law enforcement alternatives, rather than prioritizing just one.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Nathan Hochman, candidate for attorney general\"]‘My message is bipartisan. It’s commonsense. It’s pragmatic. It’s what, if you were sitting around trying to figure out the solutions to these problems, most people would come up with.’[/pullquote]That varied experience, he says, “gives me an ability to calibrate who are the true public safety threats, who need to be imprisoned and taken off our streets, and who can serve their debt to society in some other way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People like to complain about the police, but then they want to actually cut their budget and assume they’re actually going to get better at their job,” he said, while adding, “I also believe that social service organizations need to be funded.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hochman’s spokesperson did not respond to a question about the candidate’s position on abortion. Hochman, though, argues that “the job of the California attorney general is to defend and enforce the laws on the books of California. Full stop. If I wanted to make the laws, I’d run for a different position.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, Hochman pledges he would use the full power of the attorney general’s 4,500 lawyers to pursue both criminal and civil cases that matter to Californians — including investigating how fraudsters\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11893715/californias-unemployment-fraud-balloons-to-20-billion\"> bilked an estimated $20 billion in unemployment payments out of the state EDD\u003c/a>, and whether anyone in state government should be held accountable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While there’s already a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/article256487486.html\">special counsel at the EDD\u003c/a> doing just that, as well as multiple investigations at the state and federal levels, Hochman argues the attorney general should be investigating as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would hold responsible the people who either fraudulently, corruptly or negligently allowed $25 billion [sic] to go out the door in a completely criminal way. You know, it was ripped off. I mean, that’s shocking. And then I absolutely go after the people who ripped it off,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Anne Marie Schubert: The career prosecutor\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11915627\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/GettyImages-951226788.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11915627 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/GettyImages-951226788.jpg\" alt=\"A woman speaks into a gaggle of media outlet microphones. Behind her is a sign that says, 'Sacramento County District Attorney's Office.'\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/GettyImages-951226788.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/GettyImages-951226788-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/GettyImages-951226788-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/GettyImages-951226788-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sacramento District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert — who is now running for state attorney general — announces the arrest of accused rapist and killer Joseph James DeAngelo, known as the ‘Golden State Killer,’ during a news conference on April 25, 2018, in Sacramento. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sacramento District Attorney \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11738034/sacramento-district-attorney-anne-marie-schubert-on-the-death-penalty-stephon-clark-and-forensic-dna\">Anne Marie Schubert\u003c/a> is a lifelong prosecutor — the reason, she argues, voters should make her California’s top cop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why do I want this job? Because it’s all I’ve ever done,” she said. “And I believe very much in public safety and victims’ rights. And I’ve watched the demise of public safety around California. So I’m going to step into this role to help lead the state back to a balanced public safety system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schubert is a former Republican who \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/marcos-breton/article213293889.html\">registered no party preference in 2018\u003c/a>, citing the nonpartisan nature of the DA’s office and the fact that she has a range of liberal and conservative views on varying issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She worked as a prosecutor in Contra Costa and Solano counties before coming home to the Sacramento DA’s office in 1996. Elected district attorney there in 2014, she made headlines for helping\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11664637/suspected-golden-state-killer-a-former-police-officer-arrested-in-sacramento\"> crack the decades-old Golden State Killer case\u003c/a> using forensic DNA and genealogy databases; she also got heat in 2019 when she declined to charge two police officers who shot Stephon Clark to death in his grandmother’s backyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schubert cites violent crime as a top priority, pledging to advocate in the Legislature for more money for law enforcement and longer criminal sentences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, she says, as attorney general, she would intervene in counties where she feels district attorneys aren’t being tough enough — by filing charges herself. San Francisco and Los Angeles are among the cities she has singled out, both of which have progressive district attorneys who are facing recalls and whom she has frequently targeted.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Anne Marie Schubert, candidate for attorney general\"]‘I believe very much in public safety and victims’ rights. And I’ve watched the demise of public safety around California. So I’m going to step into this role to help lead the state back to a balanced public safety system.’[/pullquote]“Clearly, the issue of violent crime is the most pressing. It’s the issue of violent crime and illegal guns. So, you know, Day One or Week One or Month One … [the job] I think is to get control of violent crime. And that means working on your relationships across California with law enforcement, which I have already,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schubert is an outspoken critic of many of the state’s recent criminal justice reforms — including \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11114572/jerry-brown-pushes-earlier-release-of-felons-under-proposition-57\">Proposition 57\u003c/a>, a 2016 measure that offers shorter sentences to some prisoners who participate in rehabilitation programs. As attorney general, Schubert says she would help lead the push to change those types of laws. In the shorter term, she says, partnering with — and better funding — police agencies is key.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schubert also says the state needs to do a better job making sure programs aimed at helping criminal offenders actually work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s not just rehabilitation within the prison walls, but the reentry plans, the supervision that’s necessary,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schubert says she is pro-abortion rights and will defend the “constitutional right for a woman to have an abortion,” as well as all other state laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am deeply disturbed and, quite frankly, shocked that our [U.S.] Supreme Court would overrule 50 years of legal precedent,” she said in a written statement, in response to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/02/supreme-court-abortion-draft-opinion-00029473\">recent leak of a draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. 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(A fifth candidate — Dan Kapelovitz, of the Green party — also is on the primary ballot.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The contest follows \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11906253/violent-crime-soared-during-the-pandemic-but-does-the-political-debate-reflect-the-data\">several years of increasing crime rates, both in California and across the nation\u003c/a>, a trend that’s refocused attention on many of the criminal justice reforms Bonta championed as a lawmaker in the state Assembly, and one that’s provided an opening for more conservative law-and-order candidates in this deep-blue state. All three of Bonta’s challengers from the right have seized on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11374335/lawmakers-aim-to-limit-cash-bail-say-it-punishes-poor-for-being-poor\">his support of policies like eliminating cash bail\u003c/a> and softening criminal sentencing laws as proof that he’s not the best candidate for this moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED interviewed the three candidates to find out more about why they are running and what their priorities would be as the state’s top law enforcement officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Eric Early: The pro-Trumper\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11915646\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/early-1.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11915646\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/early-1.jpeg\" alt=\"A man stands at a podium gesticulating with his hands.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"867\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/early-1.jpeg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/early-1-800x578.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/early-1-1020x737.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/early-1-160x116.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California attorney general candidate Eric Early campaigns at an event at the Knott’s Berry Farm Hotel near Anaheim in March. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Eric Early campaign)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The most conservative and Trump-like candidate in the race, Early runs a business and entertainment law firm and hosts a Friday night talk radio show on the Los Angeles AM station KABC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s an unapologetic supporter of the former president and claims, despite all evidence to the contrary, that the 2020 election was stolen and dismisses well-documented reports of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential race as a conspiracy theory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As some of his top credentials, Early cites his unsuccessful lawsuits \u003ca href=\"https://www.independent.com/2021/12/17/appeal-court-sides-with-just-communities-and-sbusd-on-appeal-of-fair-education-lawsuit/\">against a school over critical race theory\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://wvmetronews.com/2022/02/03/federal-judge-dismisses-don-blankenships-defamation-claims-against-media-companies/\">against news organizations over their coverage\u003c/a> of a Republican mining magnate and candidate for U.S. Senate. He also ran for Congress in 2020, challenging Trump critic Adam Schiff for the seat representing a large swath of Los Angeles County — and lost by \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/11/03/us/elections/results-california-house-district-28.html\">some 55 points\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early says he’s running for attorney general on a key bread-and-butter issue: public safety. California is headed in the wrong direction, he argues, and insists he’s the one to fix things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“First thing I would do on Day One is I would call a meeting,” Early said. “I would call in all the sheriffs, all the DAs, all the police chiefs, and we would have a roundtable discussion for as long as we needed to, because I want to hear from the experts on what they believe is needed to get to the bottom of what I call the creation of a criminal’s paradise here in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early said he would use the bully pulpit to help push changes to laws he sees as problematic, \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_47,_Reduced_Penalties_for_Some_Crimes_Initiative_(2014)#:~:text=Source-,Overview,a%20felony%20to%20a%20misdemeanor.\">including Proposition 47\u003c/a>, the 2014 ballot measure that lowered most drug possession charges to misdemeanors and raised the legal threshold to prosecute felony shoplifting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a lawyer, Early says, he has helped scores of people targeted by mortgage fraudsters. He also served as lead attorney in the unsuccessful effort to recall Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he’s never served in government — something he considers an asset.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I firmly believe government is the reason for our failures. It’s time for somebody from out of government with my experience and background to get in and do what I can to help the people. And you know, I fight for all law-abiding citizens of all races, creeds, colors and sexual orientation,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Early is anti-abortion rights, his spokesperson says he will uphold all laws, even those he disagrees with. But Early also told KQED he would use the office to investigate laws he believes could be unconstitutional, specifically noting that former Attorney General Jerry Brown \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Brown-first-in-decades-to-go-against-voters-3179147.php\">refused to defend California’s ban on same-sex marriage in 2008\u003c/a>, after voters passed Proposition 8.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early also indicated he might not consider all of California’s gun laws constitutional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The attorney general can look at whether or not a law should even be enforced if it is unconstitutional. The attorney general absolutely can support our Second Amendment right, which is what I do,” he said, without citing any specific state gun restrictions he was particularly concerned with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, the attorney general’s office has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-06-10/california-attorney-general-appeal-supporting-assault-weapon-ban\">in constant litigation\u003c/a> defending the state’s restrictive gun laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while Early is encouraging voters to cast their ballots for him in any format allowed — including by mail — he also said he has questions about the integrity of the state’s entire voting system, opposes universal vote-by-mail rules, and questions the security of electronic voting machines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I get this job for attorney general, I will investigate our election apparatus,” he said, echoing a pledge made by pro-Trump candidates nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those ties to Trumpism make Early look like an easy target for Democrats in a state that overwhelmingly elected President Biden — groups backing Bonta have gone so far as to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Why-backers-of-Democratic-Attorney-General-Rob-17163311.php\">run ads promoting Early\u003c/a> in the hopes that he will be the easiest of the three candidates to beat in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Nathan Hochman: ‘The hard middle’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11915624\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1050px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/hochman4.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11915624\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/hochman4.jpeg\" alt=\"A man stands at a podium and speaks into a microphone.\" width=\"1050\" height=\"844\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/hochman4.jpeg 1050w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/hochman4-800x643.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/hochman4-1020x820.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/hochman4-160x129.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1050px) 100vw, 1050px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California attorney general candidate Nathan Hochman speaks in May to a Republican women’s group in Southern California. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Nathan Hochman campaign)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nathan Hochman says he may be a Republican and a former federal prosecutor, but hopes voters won’t pigeonhole him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My message is bipartisan. It’s commonsense. It’s pragmatic. It’s what, if you were sitting around trying to figure out the solutions to these problems, most people would come up with,” he said. “And that’s where I want to go. The hard middle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A native Californian, Hochman says his career as a U.S. attorney and private defense lawyer has spanned the gamut from going after tax cheats, polluters and dirty cops to prosecuting political corruption and defending people accused of white-collar crimes. He notes he’s the only candidate who has been both a prosecutor and a defense attorney; he also served on the Los Angeles Ethics Commission for five years, including as its president for one of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hochman, for example, says he doesn’t think everyone needs to be locked up and that California should invest in alternatives to incarceration, including diversion programs, home detention and community service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Bonta’s other challengers, Hochman cites public safety as his top issue and is critical of major criminal justice reforms, including Proposition 47. He also says he wants to use existing laws to prosecute fentanyl dealers and crack down on human trafficking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he says California should invest in both a strong police force and law enforcement alternatives, rather than prioritizing just one.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>That varied experience, he says, “gives me an ability to calibrate who are the true public safety threats, who need to be imprisoned and taken off our streets, and who can serve their debt to society in some other way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People like to complain about the police, but then they want to actually cut their budget and assume they’re actually going to get better at their job,” he said, while adding, “I also believe that social service organizations need to be funded.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hochman’s spokesperson did not respond to a question about the candidate’s position on abortion. Hochman, though, argues that “the job of the California attorney general is to defend and enforce the laws on the books of California. Full stop. If I wanted to make the laws, I’d run for a different position.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, Hochman pledges he would use the full power of the attorney general’s 4,500 lawyers to pursue both criminal and civil cases that matter to Californians — including investigating how fraudsters\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11893715/californias-unemployment-fraud-balloons-to-20-billion\"> bilked an estimated $20 billion in unemployment payments out of the state EDD\u003c/a>, and whether anyone in state government should be held accountable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While there’s already a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/article256487486.html\">special counsel at the EDD\u003c/a> doing just that, as well as multiple investigations at the state and federal levels, Hochman argues the attorney general should be investigating as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would hold responsible the people who either fraudulently, corruptly or negligently allowed $25 billion [sic] to go out the door in a completely criminal way. You know, it was ripped off. I mean, that’s shocking. And then I absolutely go after the people who ripped it off,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Anne Marie Schubert: The career prosecutor\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11915627\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/GettyImages-951226788.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11915627 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/GettyImages-951226788.jpg\" alt=\"A woman speaks into a gaggle of media outlet microphones. 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Because it’s all I’ve ever done,” she said. “And I believe very much in public safety and victims’ rights. And I’ve watched the demise of public safety around California. So I’m going to step into this role to help lead the state back to a balanced public safety system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schubert is a former Republican who \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/marcos-breton/article213293889.html\">registered no party preference in 2018\u003c/a>, citing the nonpartisan nature of the DA’s office and the fact that she has a range of liberal and conservative views on varying issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She worked as a prosecutor in Contra Costa and Solano counties before coming home to the Sacramento DA’s office in 1996. Elected district attorney there in 2014, she made headlines for helping\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11664637/suspected-golden-state-killer-a-former-police-officer-arrested-in-sacramento\"> crack the decades-old Golden State Killer case\u003c/a> using forensic DNA and genealogy databases; she also got heat in 2019 when she declined to charge two police officers who shot Stephon Clark to death in his grandmother’s backyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schubert cites violent crime as a top priority, pledging to advocate in the Legislature for more money for law enforcement and longer criminal sentences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, she says, as attorney general, she would intervene in counties where she feels district attorneys aren’t being tough enough — by filing charges herself. San Francisco and Los Angeles are among the cities she has singled out, both of which have progressive district attorneys who are facing recalls and whom she has frequently targeted.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Clearly, the issue of violent crime is the most pressing. It’s the issue of violent crime and illegal guns. So, you know, Day One or Week One or Month One … [the job] I think is to get control of violent crime. And that means working on your relationships across California with law enforcement, which I have already,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schubert is an outspoken critic of many of the state’s recent criminal justice reforms — including \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11114572/jerry-brown-pushes-earlier-release-of-felons-under-proposition-57\">Proposition 57\u003c/a>, a 2016 measure that offers shorter sentences to some prisoners who participate in rehabilitation programs. As attorney general, Schubert says she would help lead the push to change those types of laws. In the shorter term, she says, partnering with — and better funding — police agencies is key.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schubert also says the state needs to do a better job making sure programs aimed at helping criminal offenders actually work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s not just rehabilitation within the prison walls, but the reentry plans, the supervision that’s necessary,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schubert says she is pro-abortion rights and will defend the “constitutional right for a woman to have an abortion,” as well as all other state laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am deeply disturbed and, quite frankly, shocked that our [U.S.] Supreme Court would overrule 50 years of legal precedent,” she said in a written statement, in response to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/02/supreme-court-abortion-draft-opinion-00029473\">recent leak of a draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Additionally, the concept that some states would criminalize a woman’s decision to seek an abortion is outrageous to me,” she added. “As a career prosecutor, I’ve had cases where women and children were raped and impregnated by their rapist. It’s reprehensible that some states want to ban a woman’s right to choose even under these acts of violence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on another hot-button issue — gun control — Schubert says the state needs more enforcement of existing laws, not new limits on guns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I get that there’s people like Rob Bonta that want to pass more gun control, more gun control, more gun control,” she said. “This is a crime-control issue. This is about taking that gun out of the hands of convicted felons and the prohibited person that shouldn’t have it.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Amid \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletters/whatmatters/2022/02/california-crime-homelessness/\">rising concerns about crime and recent criminal justice reforms\u003c/a>, California’s law enforcement groups are spending big this year in several high-profile races.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far in the 2022 election cycle, these groups have contributed more than $1 million to campaigns for the state Legislature and several statewide offices, slightly less than the $1.2 million contributed at the same point in 2020 and significantly more than the roughly $305,000 in 2018, according to a CalMatters analysis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Monday, nearly $1 out of every $6 donated by law enforcement groups has gone into the attorney general’s race, specifically to Sacramento County District Attorney \u003ca href=\"https://annemarieforag.com/\">Anne Marie Schubert\u003c/a>. The $176,900 in cop cash given to Schubert is about 10% of her total contributions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She is a Republican turned independent who is the preferred pick of these groups looking to unseat Attorney General \u003ca href=\"https://robbonta.com/\">Rob Bonta\u003c/a>, a Democrat who was appointed by Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11909524\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54515_007_KQED_LoriWilson_03172022-qut-1020x680.jpg\"]Schubert is endorsed by one of the largest contributors: the \u003ca href=\"https://porac.org/\">Peace Officers Research Association of California\u003c/a>, an advocacy and lobbying group. The organization has given Schubert $16,200, the maximum allowed for the June 7 primary, while none of her opponents has reported any law enforcement contributions so far — not Bonta, who has raised $6.4 million so far, and not Republican challengers \u003ca href=\"https://www.nathanhochman.com/\">Nathan Hochman\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://ericearlyforca.com/\">Eric Early\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the first time since at least 1999 the organization has not contributed to the coffers of the incumbent in the attorney general’s race, according to secretary of state records. The Peace Officers Research Association sees it differently. Brian Marvel, president of the association, told CalMatters that “PORAC doesn’t consider there to be an incumbent in this race” because Bonta was appointed, not elected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other major sources of law enforcement cash are unions: the \u003ca href=\"https://www.thecahp.org/\">California Association of Highway Patrolmen\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.lapd.com/\">Los Angeles Police Protective League\u003c/a>. The CHP union has contributed $112,800 in 38 races so far, with $11,000 going to Schubert’s campaign — its first donation to a candidate for attorney general since 2007. The protective league has donated $146,600 in 25 races so far, but nothing to Schubert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the attorney general is the state’s top law enforcement officer, agencies can be directly affected by decisions, including investigations of police officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta and Schubert have different priorities for what they would do in office. Though both their campaigns discuss gun violence and prosecuting polluters, Bonta’s website highlights “fighting hate and protecting civil rights” and Schubert’s promises to “aggressively [prosecute] violent criminals.” Both candidates support the law Bonta wrote while he was a legislator that \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/ois-incidents\">directs the attorney general’s office to investigate when law enforcement officers kill unarmed civilians\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attorney general’s race isn’t the only statewide election where law enforcement groups are giving money. For the primary, \u003ca href=\"https://fppc.ca.gov/learn/campaign-rules/state-contribution-limits.html\">they are limited to giving $16,200 for statewide offices\u003c/a> — other than governor ($32,400) — and $9,700 for legislative races.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.fionama.com/\">Fiona Ma\u003c/a>, who is running for reelection as state treasurer, has received the second most so far. Why do law enforcement officers care who’s treasurer? The treasurer can affect their pensions as a board member of the California Public Employees’ Retirement System.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11908113\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/campos-haney3-1020x661.jpg\"]Ma’s campaign has taken in $55,200, with $47,100 coming from two of the three big police groups: the Peace Officers Research Association and the Los Angeles Police Protective League. Ma’s relationship with law enforcement unions isn’t new. 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