Alex Padilla: “I am here to speak on a nomination, but before I do, a point of personal privilege. It was 1 year ago today that I had…”

Their only hope for trying to maintain any sense of power is to interfere. It’s to change the rules. It’s to rig the elections.

We will fight this illegal overreach every step of the way.

My office is in touch with the FBI, U.S. Postal Service and Senate security officials following a suspicious package the U.S. Postal Service intercepted before reaching our office. Thankfully, no threat was posed to my staff or our office.

This lawsuit has no legal basis or evidence behind it and is nothing more than a blatant abuse of power designed to sow distrust in our elections and threaten Americans’ right to vote.