California Senate Passes Bill That Removes Requirement For Schools To Notify Authorities About Students Who Are Suspected Threats.

The California State Senate has passed a bill that eliminates the need that law enforcement officers be alerted if students threaten to harm themselves or others. Existing law required any school official who is “attacked, assaulted, or physically threatened by any pupil—the employee and any person under whose direction or supervision the employee is employed who has knowledge of the incident to promptly report the incident to specified law enforcement authorities” before the bill, SB 1273, was passed. A punishment of “not less than $500 and not more than $1,000” might be imposed on anybody who fails to disclose a potential threat. These clauses are repealed by the new measure, which was presented by State Senator Steven Bradford (D-Los Angeles) and passed the state’s upper house on May 26. The bill was enacted barely two days after an 18-year-old gunman…

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California Leaves Behind Voter ID Legislation. Leaving The Corruption Unchecked.

The likelihood of protracted litigation has caused supporters of a California voter identification campaign to postpone their proposed ballot issue from 2022 to 2024. Reform California submitted its proposed ballot initiative, the Voter Identification and Registration Requirements Initiative, in September and obtained approval to begin collecting the 997,139 signatures required by the April 26 deadline to get the issue on the state’s June 30 ballot. Even if it could fulfill the “tight deadlines” for collecting signatures, Reform California Chairman Carl DeMaio said it was clear that state authorities and the Democrat-controlled State Assembly were determined to keep the Voter ID initiative off the ballot. “They think our proposition is illegal,” DeMaio added, quoting California Attorney General Rob Bonta and legislative analysts. That gave us pause to see what they’d do to put a halt to this initiative.” Reform California would…

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Democrats In Pennsylvania Celebrate Abortion Provider Appreciation Day.

The Pennsylvania Women’s Health Caucus recognized Abortion Provider Appreciation Day, a national initiative, on Thursday. All Democrats, including state senators Judy Schwank and Amanda Cappelletti, as well as state representatives Morgan Cephas and Mary Jo Daley, issued a unified statement thanking abortion providers for their services. “We’d want to congratulate abortion providers across Pennsylvania for continuing to provide important healthcare services in the face of these unprecedented attacks on the right to choose, as well as the extra pressures posed by the COVID-19 outbreak,” the statement stated. “As we face attacks on abortion access at every level and in every shape and form anti-abortion legislators can devise, it’s critical that we support abortion doctors who are persisting in providing complete reproductive healthcare to their patients despite the political climate.” Today, join us in recognizing abortion providers all throughout the country!”…

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The Left Is Fighting Tooth & Nail Against American Energy Independence In Light Of Ukraine Invasion.

Governor Tom Wolf of Pennsylvania has sent a sharp response to a letter from House Republicans on the Energy Committee urging him to relax limits on Pennsylvania’s gas reserves and alleviate market uncertainty created by the Ukraine crisis. The United States’ greatest natural gas reserve sits underground in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia. There are about 100,000 operating oil wells in Pennsylvania. Rep. Daryl Metcalfe, chairman of the Environmental Resources and Energy Committee, penned the letter, which was signed by 14 other members of Congress on March 1. It begs Wolf to persuade neighboring states to lift pipeline development limits so that liquefied natural gas (LNG) can be transported to New England states, which now buy LNG from other countries, including, according to the letter, Russia. The letter also requests Wolf to lift the moratorium on natural gas extraction in…

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