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The ‘Stop Nick Shirley Act’ Is A Pathetic Joke

The actual text of the bill is about allowing people to submit a half a ton of paperwork to a state program so the state can tell people not to be mean to you.

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A bunch of news organizations are sounding the alarm about a California bill that critics are calling the “Stop Nick Shirley Act,” saying that it “criminalizes investigative journalism.” They can save their breath, because the author is stupid, the bill is stupid, and none of it is ever going to mean anything.

The critics are right about intent, and the petulant Democrat who introduced the bill – Mia Bonta, the wife of appalling California Attorney General Rob Bonta – hopes to make it seem harder for conservative journalists to talk about illegal immigration and the abuse of the welfare state. The legislative intent is to snivel about mean right-wingers and make them shut up. But as a potential future law, it’s just not going to work.

California does this, exactly this, more often than you realize. Parents criticized school boards during the pandemic, so the dimwitted state legislature passed a bill to criminalize the criticism of school boards. Watering it down to try to wedge it past the First Amendment, the author added a bunch of narrow conditions to the things that would qualify as criminal school board criticism: It’s illegal to criticize a school board if........

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