[CurlyDave]

...The Sacramento Bee reported that the old law, the California Posse Comitatus Act of 1872, was common in the country’s early days, but Sen. Bob Hertzberg, a Los Angeles Democrat who sponsored the bill, called the old law a “vestige of a bygone era." The law was employed to help catch runaway slaves, the report said...

Since slavery officially ended in the US in 1865, it is difficult for me to understand how any law passed in 1872 could have been used to catch runaway slaves.

Bob, it is time for you to go back to history class before you put your foot further into your mouth.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

Slavery was never a big issue in California either.

[Moonman62]

Since slavery officially ended in the US in 1865, it is difficult for me to understand how any law passed in 1872 could have been used to catch runaway slaves.

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This bill is political theater by the Democrats, so why not add a lie to it.

[Flick Lives]

Since slavery officially ended in the US in 1865, it is difficult for me to understand how any law passed in 1872 could have been used to catch runaway slaves.

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Narrative is more important than facts. Slavery bad. Law to help catch slaves bad (even if law was passed *after* emancipation... they know most won’t know history). Ergo, law must go.

[matt04]

But, but the left tells me they support science and facts (when convient)