California – the home of Hollywood, Google, and the Beach Boys – has a dream. It plans to lead the resistance – on the environment, social policy, democracy and technology – galvanising other states into action michael2day reports
Trump’s supporters on the American right insist the future is orange – and if you look to the skies filled with rust-coloured smoke blowing down from the wildfires in Eastern Canada, you might tend to agree.
The tool they will deploy is the 10th Amendment of the US Constitution, which says: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”Mendonca says that extremist positions by the Supreme Court on the environment, guns and abortion have left them with no alternative, and he predicts that “in state after state, a new era of progressive federalism is at hand”.
California has arguably the nation’s strictest gun laws, and not surprisingly, one of lowest rates of gun deaths.
California – particularly the Bay Area – is also leading the debate on the thorny subject of restitution for slavery and racism. He notes this sounds suspiciously like Trump-era America, “but these were also the conditions that prevailed more than a century ago, when the Progressive Era generated social and political reforms that made the United States a freer and fairer country”.
The politician planning the 10th Amendment fightback is the state’s high-profile governor, Gavin Newsom. But Newsom also likes a scrap, and Ron DeSantis, the right-wing and somewhat reptilian class-warrior to Newsom’s Robert Redford, is his current target.
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