Start Making Sense with Jon Wiener
Sep 23, 2026 · 41 min · 21 segments
The primary force behind the settlement that will allow Trump’s allies at Paramount to take over Warners-Discovery and CNN was Gavin Newsom, who pressured California Attorney General Rob Bonta to end…
Jon WienerHost
John NicholsGuest
One more thing, you mentioned that California has just passed several election protection laws.
One bill prohibits the seizure of ballots, election records, or voting technology before an election is certified, that's the official declaration of the winner.
Another makes it a felony for people in positions of authority to direct workers to interfere with the delivery of a mail ballot or its return.
Another of the new California laws prohibits arrests within 200 feet of a polling place on election day, with exceptions for acts related to disrupting the election or crimes against people or property.
Yes, and I'll tell you why every state should have its own protection, civil and criminal, against this kind of misconduct.
Under one of the founding principles of our country, it's called among legal circles, scholars of the founding and framing of the Constitution, are federalism.
Now, fortunately, we won at the Supreme Court, so the illegal Postal Service rules have been frozen.
State prohibitions can be enforced under Article 1, Section 4 in our federalism by the federal courts, civil prohibitions.
One more thing, you mentioned that California has just passed several election protection laws.
One bill prohibits the seizure of ballots, election records, or voting technology before an election is certified, that's the official declaration of the winner.
Another makes it a felony for people in positions of authority to direct workers to interfere with the delivery of a mail ballot or its return.
Another of the new California laws prohibits arrests within 200 feet of a polling place on election day, with exceptions for acts related to disrupting the election or crimes against people or property.
Yes, and I'll tell you why every state should have its own protection, civil and criminal, against this kind of misconduct.
Under one of the founding principles of our country, it's called among legal circles, scholars of the founding and framing of the Constitution, are federalism.
Now, fortunately, we won at the Supreme Court, so the illegal Postal Service rules have been frozen.
State prohibitions can be enforced under Article 1, Section 4 in our federalism by the federal courts, civil prohibitions.
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