California Gov. Gavin Newsom persisted his assaults in opposition to federal judges Wednesday night, calling into query the nature of San Diego-based U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez following a arguable “scared straight” way on a defendant’s daughter in court docket final month.
Including a hyperlink to a tale from the San Diego Union Tribune in regards to the incident, Newsome tweeted:
“Judge Benitez on full display. THIS is the man who is deciding the fate of CA’s assault weapons ban. A man that will handcuff innocent kids in a courtroom for the sake of humiliation. I’m the dad of a 13-year-old daughter – this sickens me.”
The outlet main points a second throughout a Feb. 13 listening to the place Benitez informed a U.S. Marshal to handcuff the 13-year-old daughter of a defendant who was once in court docket to come to a decision probation revocation following 5 years in jail and 5 years of supervised liberate on a drug conspiracy price.
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California Governor Gavin Newsom speaks earlier than signing law setting up the Community Assistance, Recovery and Empowerment Act, in San Jose, Calif., Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2022. (Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group by way of AP)
After the person informed Benitez he was once involved for his daughter as a result of she appeared to be happening the trail that in the long run landed him in prison, Benitez requested the woman, who was once reportedly crying, to way him at the stand and had her in brief handcuffed so as to scare her clear of legal conduct.
The act led to a misconduct grievance being filed in opposition to Benitez, which can be reviewed by way of the next court docket.
Newsom’s tweet comes lower than a month after he lashed out at a panel of 3 judges from the fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals when they struck down a regulation that banned other folks convicted of home violence from proudly owning firearms.
Newsom fired off on the judges, who determined that the regulation violated the Second Amendment, calling them “zealots” who’re “hellbent on a deranged vision of guns for all.”
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Benitez, who overturned California’s decades-old ban on attack guns in 2021 earlier than the next court docket reinstated the regulation, has been a goal for the Democratic governor for the reason that determination just about two years in the past.
Newsom categorized him an “activist judge” and “a wholly owned subsidiary of the gun lobby and National Rifle Association” after he shot down a number of gun regulations within the state and when compared an AR-15 attack rifle to a Swiss military knife.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Attorney General Rob Bonta introduced that the state of California has filed an attraction to a up to date determination by way of a U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez of San Diego to overturn California’s three-decade-old ban on attack guns. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
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The constitutionality of California’s weapons-related ban has been in limbo following the reinstatement and Benitez is predicted to liberate a 2d determination within the coming weeks.
Fox News Digital’s Houston Keene contributed to this record.
