A bill moving through California’s state legislature would give taxpayer-funded “immigrant service providers” the power to demand the removal of videos recorded in public spaces that they don’t like — and impose steep financial penalties on them. It’s a narrowly tailored punishment on “anti-immigrant” journalists. Republicans call it the “Stop Nick Shirley Act.”
California Post opinion editor Joel Pollak is our special guest for all things Golden State, and MRC Free Speech America vice president Dan Schneider joined as well.
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