Gov. Gavin Newsom has called for a U.S. Constitutional amendment to lock in gun restrictions nationwide that are based on California rules.
Article V of the U.S. Constitution lays out two pathways for amending it. One of the methods was used in the adoption of the 27 current amendments, in which Congress by a two-thirds vote in both the House and Senate calls for an amendment, which then must be ratified by three-fourths of the states.
California’s Democratic governor is seeking the alternative path, in which the legislatures of two-thirds of the states --- 34 of them — ask Congress to call a convention for proposing constitutional amendments, which also then must be approved by three-fourths of the state legislatures or conventions.
The proposed resolution, Senate Joint Resolution 7, is carried by Sen. Aisha Wahab, a Fremont Democrat, and Assemblyman Reginald Jones-Sawyer, a Democrat from Los Angeles. Scroll down for the text approved by the California Senate Public Safety Committee in a 3-1 vote. It now goes to a floor vote of the Senate and then on to the Assembly.
Newson almost certainly has designs to run for President at some point. He is related to the Speaker of the House (Pelosi). After having looked into the genealogy of so many politicians, I'd bet my left testicle that he's related to the Senate Majority Leader (Schumer) as well. He's been a shaved Drag Queen for decades. Hell, that was his policy platform when he ran for governor..