They Hit the Basement and Then They Just Keep Digging

All that aside, let's talk about the abortion issue and what is on Gavin Newsom's desk right now.

So for those who don't know, the way that the California legislature works, we have the state assembly.

We have the state senate.

They write and pass laws that… are enforced and applicable over all of us poor schlubs who live in California.

And basically they have to write the laws, they pass the laws through majority vote, and then the bills go and sit on Gavin Newsom's desk for his signature or his veto.

So the schedule is the legislature meets from basically December of the prior year all the way through in an election year.

They go until August 31st.

In a non-election year, they'll go to mid-September.

And then after that, the governor has a month.

He's got a month to decide, am I going to sign? Am I going to veto? So all these bills that the legislature has passed over the course of the year, they're all sitting on his desk.

And Newsom has a month to decide what he's going to do with them all.

So he has all of September.

Deadline is September 30th to decide what he's going to sign and not sign.

So some things he's already signed or vetoed, and other things are sitting on his desk.

So what we're going to do today on the show is talk about him.

So...

Here's the biggies.

AB 1973.

Jonathan, let's go into this.

AB 1973 is a bill that would allow non-doctors, nurse practitioners, nurse midwives, and physician assistants to perform second and third trimester

abortions.

Right.

Which is insane.

So I want to back up and say this is an expansion.

We've talked about this lots on the show before, John, but every time we think...

All that aside, let's talk about the abortion issue and what is on Gavin Newsom's desk right now.

So for those who don't know, the way that the California legislature works, we have the state assembly.

We have the state senate.

They write and pass laws that… are enforced and applicable over all of us poor schlubs who live in California.

And basically they have to write the laws, they pass the laws through majority vote, and then the bills go and sit on Gavin Newsom's desk for his signature or his veto.

So the schedule is the legislature meets from basically December of the prior year all the way through in an election year.

They go until August 31st.

In a non-election year, they'll go to mid-September.

And then after that, the governor has a month.

He's got a month to decide, am I going to sign? Am I going to veto? So all these bills that the legislature has passed over the course of the year, they're all sitting on his desk.

And Newsom has a month to decide what he's going to do with them all.

So he has all of September.

Deadline is September 30th to decide what he's going to sign and not sign.

So some things he's already signed or vetoed, and other things are sitting on his desk.

So what we're going to do today on the show is talk about him.

So...

Here's the biggies.

AB 1973.

Jonathan, let's go into this.

AB 1973 is a bill that would allow non-doctors, nurse practitioners, nurse midwives, and physician assistants to perform second and third trimester

abortions.

Right.

Which is insane.

So I want to back up and say this is an expansion.

We've talked about this lots on the show before, John, but every time we think...