California AG Wants To Extend "Red Flag Law" To 90 Days

This goes into the Never Let a Good Crisis Go To Waste file.

Every time news from California about actions detrimental to our constitutional rights, the more glad I am that I moved out of the state.

While still living in California, I experienced the state's "red flag" temporary Gun Violence Restraining Order (GVRO) due to a vengeful ex.

Now, according to the NRA-ILA, the GVRO may be extended allegedly due to the coronavirus. Naturally, the radical left-wing attorney general, Xavier Becerra, wants to extend the time of the GVRO.

They wrote:

Yesterday, the California Attorney General sent out a press release on domestic violence issues related to the COVID-19 crisis.  Included in his release was an automatic extension of up to 90 days for temporary Gun Violence Restraining Orders (GVRO) that have not yet had a formal hearing.  This move highlights a major problem with GVRO/Red flag laws: a person can lose their rights with no due process, and in this case, the deprivation can be extended with the stroke of a pen by an anti-gun bureaucrat. 

Under current law, a temporary GVRO automatically expires 21 days after it is issued. State law also requires a full hearing to take place within the 21 day period. It is only at the full hearing that due process protections apply, where an individual has the right to counsel and to be heard on the allegations before the court.  However, with emergency powers invoked by the Governor and such authority extended to the judicial branch during the COVID-19 crisis, hearings can now be postponed for up to 90 days, resulting in some temporary orders being in effect for up to 110 days.  

If this could happen in California, where Democrats have total control of the state government, it can happen in other states. So much for due process and constitutional rights.

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