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In this Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2020, file photo, a person drops applications for mail-in-ballots into a mailbox in Omaha, Neb. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)

Democratic senators urge Postal Service to defy Trump order on mail-in voting

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent stands outside the Delaney Hall Detention Facility during protests over federal immigration enforcement raids on Thursday, June 12, 2025, in Newark, N.J. (AP Photo/Olga Fedorova)

Democrats’ bills requiring ICE agents to be identifiable show they ‘hate our country,’ Trump says

By Mallory Wilson - The Washington Times

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Letter to the editor: Padilla wanted a performance, not answers

FILE - Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., left, speaks with Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., right, during a Senate hearing, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Dec. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

California senators demand Trump immigration officials stop using Medicaid data

By Kimberly Kindy and Amanda Seitz - Associated Press

FILE - Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., left, speaks with Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., right, during a Senate hearing, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Dec. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

California senators demand Trump immigration officials stop using Medicaid data

By Kimberly Kindy and Amanda Seitz - Associated Press

U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., is pushed out of the room as Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem holds a news conference regarding the recent protests in Los Angeles, Thursday, June 12, 2025. (David Crane/The Orange County Register via AP)

Sen. Padilla says in Senate ‘it’s time to wake up’ after forced removal from Noem’s event

By Mary Clare Jalonick and Michael R. Blood - Associated Press

U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., is pushed out of the room as Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem holds a news conference regarding the recent protests in Los Angeles, Thursday, June 12, 2025. (David Crane/The Orange County Register via AP)

Sen. Alex Padilla questions Trump administration’s treatment of law-abiding illegal immigrants

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

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Letter to the editor: Padilla’s not above the law

U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla is pushed out of the room as Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem holds a news conference regarding the recent protests in Los Angeles on Thursday, June 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Etienne Laurent)

WATCH: Sen. Padilla forcibly ejected from DHS secretary’s press conference

By Stephen Dinan and Mallory Wilson - The Washington Times

Pam Bondi, President-elect Donald Trump's choice to lead the Justice Department as attorney general, appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee for her confirmation hearing, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Bondi spars with California’s Padilla over 2020 election, birthright citizenship during AG hearing

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times

Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., speaks during a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions confirmation hearing on April 20, 2023, in Washington. Prominent Latinos in Congress looked on quietly, at first, privately raising concerns with the Biden administration over the direction of border security talks. Padilla was on the phone constantly with administration officials questioning why the Senate negotiations did not include any meaningful consideration of providing pathways to citizenship for long-time undocumented immigrants. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Latino Democrats shift from quiet concern to open opposition to Biden’s concessions in border talks

Associated Press

FILE - Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., questions Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson during her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 22, 2022. Padilla, who was appointed by Gov. Gavin Newsom, will face Republican constitutional lawyer Mark Meuser to fill the last two months of Kamala Harris' U.S. Senate term and the other for a new six-year term. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Alex Padilla keeps California Senate seat in Democratic column

By Elliot Spagat - Associated Press

Congresswoman Maxine Waters waves in her car during a car parade to mark Juneteenth on Saturday, June 19, 2021, in Inglewood, Calif. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)

Biden encourages Maxine Waters to run for Senate: ‘You think I’m kidding. I’m not’

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

FILE - In this March 16, 2021, file photo, Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., speaks during a hearing of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee on Capitol Hill, in Washington. Padilla on Monday, May 3, 2021, proposed a vast expansion of government protection for public lands and rivers that he said would fight climate change and safeguard natural treasures for generations to come. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

California senator seeks expansion of land, water protection

Associated Press

In this Oct. 30, 2017, file photo, Cristian Rodriguez fuels his vehicle in Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

California Democrats urge Biden to tackle climate change by banning sale of gas-powered vehicles

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Jan. 28, 2019, file photo, California Secretary of State Alex Padilla talks during a news conference at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif. California Gov. Gavin Newsom appointed Secretary of State Alex Padilla on Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020, as the state's next U.S. senator to fill the seat being vacated by Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

California gets Latino US senator, some Black leaders angry

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 10, 2020, file photo, Assemblywoman Shirley Weber, D-San Diego, calls on members of the Assembly to approve a measure at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif. Weber, was named on Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020, by picked Gov. Gavin Newsom to be Caliofornia Secretary of State. She will be the first Black woman to hold the post and comes to the job with a special understanding about the right to vote. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File

Ancestor of 1st Black California elections chief never voted

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD - Associated Press

California Secretary of State Alex Padilla talks during a news conference Monday, Jan. 28, 2019, at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

Alex Padilla picked by Gavin Newsom to fill Kamala Harris Senate seat

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Feinstein picks Padilla in jockeying for Harris’ Senate seat

Associated Press

An official ballot drop box is seen Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2020, in Santa Clarita, Calif. With more than 1.5 million votes already cast in California, state Republican Party leaders on Wednesday said they will not comply with an order from the state's chief elections official to remove unofficial ballot drop boxes from counties with competitive U.S. House races.(AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

California GOP says it won’t remove unofficial ballot boxes

By ADAM BEAM and AMY TAXIN - Associated Press