California’s Democrat-dominated Senate voted last week to adopt a resolution condemning Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump, demanding “an end to hate speech and racist rhetoric by all presidential candidates.”

Senate Resolution 39, which also calls for economic sanctions targeting Trump, amounts to a startling example of a legislature trying to silence speech, and what’s more, the speech of a political opponent. The resolution suggests political correctness has taken hold to such a degree that politicians now feel free to pass measures that would limit the First Amendment rights of the opposition.

The resolution calls for the state to “divest from Donald Trump.”

“Support this resolution to send a clear message that bigotry and racism and hatred is not tolerated in the state of California,” urged Sen. Isadore Hall, D-Compton, the measure’s author. “It’s time quite honestly to dump Trump.”

Hall, who represents Compton, one of the poorest cities in California, has his own controversies, particularly for his use of campaign funds to pay for expensive dinners, limousine rentals, luxury suites at concerts, and trips to resorts in Maui, Hawaii, Ojai, Calif., and Pebble Beach.

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The resolution calls for the state to “divest from Donald Trump, The Trump Organization, and any affiliated entities,” due to his “racist” remarks about immigrants. It urges the state to divest from his “private businesses, and calls on individuals throughout California to end all business ties with Donald Trump.”

The resolution originally also condemned “in the strongest terms possible the racist rhetoric against immigrant families made by presidential candidate Ted Cruz,” but that was removed from the bill.

Hate speech has never really been defined, except by Democrats. The First Amendment was written not to protect polite speech, but to protect remarks considered controversial.

Democrats have certainly offered up plenty of their own “hate speech.”

“I keep hearing about a supposed ‘hate speech’ exception to the First Amendment, or statements such as, ‘This isn’t free speech, it’s hate speech,’ or ‘When does free speech stop and hate speech begin?’” wrote Eugene Volokh, who comments on legal issues. “But there is no hate speech exception to the First Amendment. Hateful ideas (whatever exactly that might mean) are just as protected under the First Amendment as other ideas. One is as free to condemn Islam — or Muslims, or Jews, or blacks, or whites, or illegal aliens, or native-born citizens — as one is to condemn capitalism or Socialism or Democrats or Republicans.”

This childish outburst from the California Senate has probably done little more to Trump than give him more press.

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Democrats have certainly offered up plenty of their own “hate speech.”

In 2010, then-Democratic California gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown was condemned by the Anti-Defamation League for “offensive and inappropriate” remarks about GOP challenger Meg Whitman.

In 2010, then-Democratic California gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown was condemned by the Anti-Defamation League for “offensive and inappropriate” remarks about GOP challenger Meg Whitman.

Brown “left a phone message in early September for a union official whose endorsement he was seeking, but apparently forgot to hang up — because a lively discussion between him and some staffers afterward is caught on tape,” ABC News reported. “And either Brown or a staffer — there is some dispute — uses the word ‘whore’ to describe his Republican rival Meg Whitman.”

Yet the California National Organization for Women, a liberal feminist group, refused to withdraw its endorsement of Brown.

Bill Clinton, when asking Sen. Ted Kennedy for his endorsement of Hillary Clinton in the 2008 campaign, said of Obama: “A few years ago, this guy would have been getting us coffee.”

Former Vermont governor and DNC chairman Howard Dean joked during a speech, “You think the Republican National Committee could get this many people of color in a single room? Only if they had the hotel staff in here.”

Vice President Joe Biden, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, and other Democrats have had their moments of “hate.”

All of the Senate Democrats voted to pass SR 39. Most of the Senate Republicans abstained.