Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) earned the ire of California Democrats after rejecting several reparations-inspired racial justice bills.

Newsom passed a bill granting $6 million for California State University to study how to confirm the status of slave descendants, but rejected others providing special preference to black people or the descendants of slaves. Democratic Assemblymember Isaac Bryan, who wrote one of the bills, said the veto was “more than disappointing.”

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