Ex-Dem Senate leader asks California Supreme Court to block Gavin Newsom’s death row commutations

Source: New York Post

Former California Senate Majority Leader Gloria Romero is asking the state Supreme Court to block Gov. Gavin Newsom’s sweeping commutations of all 548 death row inmates, accusing the outgoing Democrat of abusing his power to burnish his national political ambitions. Romero, who served 12 years in the Legislature and was the first woman to lead the state Senate as majority leader, told the California Post exclusively that Newsom’s decision to spare all 548 condemned inmates was a calculated political stunt aimed at appealing to the Democratic Party’s increasingly left-wing base.