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Sep 30 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Huge news in California: Newsom signed #SB1008, a bill that will make phone calls from prison free for incarcerated people.

Here's more context: smdailyjournal.com/news/local/new…
I'm not seeing the bill signing on Newsom's press releases & legislative website yet, but the news was tweeted by Senator @JoshBeckerSV, who sponsored the legislation.
There are still many criminal justice bills on Newsom's desk, so the next few days will be very interesting.

This one for instance: boltsmag.org/california-leg…

But Newsom signed this other important bill related to law enforcement and CJ the other day:
And... a big decision that comes on the same night, in the other direction:
Another major piece of legislation on incarceration that Newsom handled yesterday -- and this one he signed:

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Sep 12
why have the chief justices of the illinois & michigan supreme courts announced their retirements within hours of each other?!?!
an answer may be that they wanted to commemorate the @StrictScrutiny_ podcast coming out today about the importance fo state court! (plug for you to listen:)

More seriously: Justice Anne Burke holds one of the 3 seats on the Illinois supreme court that are reserved to Cook County, so this will likely stay in Democratic hands going forward.

Two other seats are on the line in November, & majority could flip. boltsmag.org/your-state-by-…
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Sep 12
‼️ I just wrote on Friday that there's a clear majority on Michigan supreme court that's willing to shut down election denialism: boltsmag.org/michigan-canva…

But as @LeahLitman said plainly, that only works "if the court stays the same."

Dem chief justice just announced retirement.
Dem Gov. Gretchen Whitmer will get to fill this vacancy. And I BELIEVE that the new justice would face re-election in November 2024 (and have their term run through January 2025), and so be involved in any-post election lawsuits. So presumably balance of power not altered.
But this is a reminder that unforeseen vacancies do arise; if Tudor Dixon won against Whitmer this fall she'd get to appoint future replacements.

And that's not to mention that two court seats are on the line in November. (Really, a lot more in my piece: boltsmag.org/michigan-canva…)
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Sep 8
NEW: The Michigan Supreme Court just directed the State Board of Canvassers to place two constitutional amendments back on November's ballot: one to protect abortion rights, one to strengthen voting rights.

It rebukes Republicans on the Board who blocked the measures last week.
Implication #1: Michiganders will decide on protecting abortion rights, & definitely overturn the pre-Roe ban on the books.

This election will be one of the most critical on the ballot in November. There are many others, tho, including referendums: boltsmag.org/your-guide-to-…
Note #2: It looks like two of the court's three Republican justices dissented. (None of the 4 Dems.)

Note that one of them, Brian Zahra, is on the ballot this November.

In fact, two seats are at play in Michigan, & partisan majority could flip: boltsmag.org/your-state-by-…
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Sep 7
An Alabama county is detaining women in jail (without a criminal conviction) "for weeks or months" based on the idea that they're pregnant and their fetus should be protected. al.com/news/2022/09/p…
This county is Etowah, the subject of a blockbuster investigation a few years back that its sheriff had personally pocketed money meant to feed people in its jail to buy a beach house. AND THAT THIS WAS LEGAL.

(This is no longer the current sheriff.)

al.com/news/birmingha…
This is part of a whole set of ways that criminal justice officials have been criminalizing pregnancy outcomes since well before Dobbs. Check out this @JessPish story on what's been happening in California!

boltsmag.org/california-pre…
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Sep 7
Keeping on Lansing in the coming hours.
OK, this afternoon, we're REALLY looking at Lansing.
Literally down to the wire, but we should know more imminently.
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Sep 4
Wow, what a situation: In the closely divided Arizona senate, Democrat Diego Espinoza was the sole candidate for a safe Dem seat.

But he has dropped out now to take a job — & that apparently means whomever gets most write-in votes will become state senator here, danger to Dems.
Even wilder: Diego Espinoza had won the Democratic nomination in a *contested* primary just one month ago. Within a month, this.
This feels like a situation tailor-made to make @DavidNir & the @DKElections team’s heads explode.
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