House Republicans Just Asked Todd Blanche to Crush Newsom’s ‘Stop Nick Shirley’ Law

Democrats proved again recently they don’t care about taxpayers, they don’t care about honesty, they certainly don’t care about law and order, and they don’t care if you know they don’t care about any of these things in states they control. That’s why California Democrats, with their supermajority and left-wing stooge for a governor, Gavin Newsom, passed a law to stop an independent journalist from exposing the massive Medicaid fraud and abuse in the once-Golden State.

But the insult to taxpayers (state and federal, by the way) could soon be coming to an end. Nine House Republicans, led by California Rep. James Gallagher and including Rep. August Pfluger (who chairs the Republican Study Committee), sent a letter to AG Todd Blanche Thursday asking him to investigate California’s AB 2624 and take legal action to prevent it from taking effect. Their letter is direct: “The important work of uncovering and addressing fraud is just beginning, and yet California Democrats and Governor Newsom are taking brazen and potentially unconstitutional steps to impede it.”

They’re right on both counts. Brazen. Potentially unconstitutional. And timed to protect the exact fraud operations being exposed.

AB 2624 — commonly known as the ‘Stop Nick Shirley Act’ because California’s own Democratic Assembly members referred to Shirley by name when discussing it — shields certain immigration service providers from public scrutiny by restricting the online publication of their personal information or images when officials determine the material was “posted to harass or incite violence.” Under these provisions, journalists and private citizens could face civil lawsuits, minimum $4,000 in damages, and potentially jail time for publishing now-protected information.