so there is enough in terms of aggravating circumstances already for the prosecutors if they choose to, to seek the death penalty. even if they decide not to pursue the death penalty, i can t imagine that if he is convicted that he would face anything other than life in prison without parole. very gruesome circumstances. four college students murder, two able to be spared in what appears to be this very horrific attack on these students apartment. it took investigators a while before they were able to link kohberger to these killings. they were able to do so as a result of dna evidence as well as cell phone evidence and surveillance video that tied his car to a car that was seen near the apartment. areva, other proceedings today that have to do with this gag order that has been in place since january, how unusual is a gag order this sweeping? and is it warranted in your
amendment right to own firearms. but the premise of this lie is, look, if the supreme court can allow people to use these bounties to sue people over abortion providing abortion care in texas, why can t we use to it sue manufacturers of ghost guns in california. and the law has a provision in it that says if the supreme court strikes one down, we can strike the other down and in that way, governor newsom is making a legal and policy point and also saying to democrats, look, i m not just going to stand around. i m going to fight back. areva, i ll extend his analogy about legal eagles. you are the legal eagle here. in fact, i respect you so much. what is good for the goose, bring another bird here, what is good for the goose is good for the gander. the idea here that this was almost anticipated. this was almost called immediately out when we saw the texas law about the bounty. why wouldn t other so-called blue states do this? in fact, i want to read through something, because the acl
be the fighter the democrats need. he s got the sort of obama-like exterior, the tall trim perfect family guy out front and he s taken on a little bit of that elizabeth warren, i m going to fight, i have a plan here mode and maybe that s a formula that will work for him individually and maybe some other democrats will sort of imitate it as we get into the midterms and into the 2024 election cycle. it is important areva, i d love you to weigh in on this as well. remember, that bounty law out of texas, it was a case the supreme court looked at, but they allowed it to go into effect any way, even though they had the dobbs decision pending. now we have the dobbs decision now here, which overturns roe v. wade. but they actually returned to it the state level i believe to flush out the constitutionality at the state level of that particular provision. so it didn t go back up to the
legal reasoning to let this abortion law stand in the state of texas, then you must act consistently and allow this law to stand in california. and if you don t, shame on you and i will call you out for the hypocrites that you are. so a lot of politics going on, laura, as well as some legal i ll call shenanigans by governors like newsom. the reason i kind of chuckle at the idea of consistency, ar areva, and we ll chuckle in harmony, if that s a thing, the idea of the supreme court on the very case overturning roe v. wade, the dobbs decision trying to compartmentalize and it s inconsistent, and saying hey, this fundamental rule will apply here and is the base logic, but not anything else that comes from the same thing. i wonder the idea of trolling the supreme court on a matter of consistency might be an exercise in futility. we will see. david, the law also comes as states are dealing with other politically sensitive issues
like contraception, who knew that would be politically sensitive after the griswald decision, but apparently it is, after voting rights. could these types of laws fuel political battles? most likely they will, right? yeah, and just to areva s point about governor newsom and the california legislature wanting to have a challenge at the supreme court so if the supreme court isn t consistent in its application of constitutional principles, they can say shame on you. that shame on you, if you twist the wording around a little bit becomes a campaign rallying cry. it becomes an issue that obviously governor newsom can run on and other democrats if they follow his lead can run on. governor newsom has some quite wide open runway right now. he won his runoff excuse me, his recall challenge last year. he s going to coast to reelection in the regular election this year. he s got that band width to be able to say look, i m going to