Todd Blanche claims he was Donald Trump's personal attorney but is continuing to act as if he's still Donald Trump's personal attorney.
Alex Padilla
The Public Record
Alex Padilla is an American politician serving as the junior United States senator from California since January 2021. He is a member of the Democratic Party and was appointed to fill the vacancy left by Kamala Harris when she became Vice President. Padilla is the first Latino senator from California and has focused on issues such as immigration reform, climate change, and healthcare access during his tenure. He previously served as the Secretary of State of California from 2015 to 2021, where he worked on expanding voting access and modernizing the state's election system.
After a fire takes your home, the last thing families and communities should have to think about is a tax bill on the very settlement meant to help them rebuild.
Access to safe and clean drinking water is a human right, and investments in desalination programs will help us provide drinking water to millions of Americans in need.
I fully support and stand by the people of Ukraine bravely fighting for their freedom.
While I will continue to proudly stand by Ukraine and will work to impose strong, targeted consequences on Russia, I cannot support legislation that makes it harder for American families to make ends meet.
This bill would invest in long-term and low-cost pasture management treatments – ultimately supporting our family dairies, improving the quality of the air we breathe, protecting our environment, and keeping California’s cows happy.
As California continues to provide food for families across the country, it’s critical we equip our producers with resources and tools to ensure sustainable and cost-effective practices.
Yet, today’s climate crisis demands that we adopt a more sustainable agricultural model.
However, Congress should not use a Russia sanctions bill to hand Trump new tariff authorities that he will wield recklessly.
The Pit River Land Transfer Act would ensure the Pit River Tribe rightly acquires their sacred ancestral lands to maintain their traditions and history.
At a time when Trump’s unauthorized war with Iran is driving up the costs of oil and gas, Californians and consumers across the country are in need of relief.
All branches of our Armed Forces deserve our enduring support and gratitude for their honorable service to our country, including access to high-quality services that improve their efficiency — anything short of that is unacceptable.
Farm and food system workers are essential to feeding our country and bolstering California and the nation’s economy, but for far too long, they have been unjustly excluded from protections extended to other workers, have inadequate…
These bills would correct our nation’s labor laws to bring economic justice for farm workers and equip the USDA with more tools to integrate worker perspective, priorities, and staffing to better represent its farm and food system workers.
For generations, senseless conflict and bureaucratic barriers have kept California Tribes from managing their ancestral lands.
As the Trump Administration continues to target farm and food system workers, I will keep fighting to make sure our essential workers are treated with the dignity and respect they deserve for their back-breaking, critical work.
First of all, Joan Sebastián Guerrero’s daughter should still have her father. Second, and this is publicly reported, the man who took his life should never have been given a badge and a gun.
They’re failing the humanity test. They’re being ordered by federal courts to do the job right. They’re doubling down and growing their operation.
It’s a choice, folks, that we’re making. What kind of a country are we working towards? It’s a choice that this Administration and congressional Republicans have made of what we’re seeing on the streets. America deserves better.
We must re-emphasize that current use of the SAVE program for list maintenance is illegal, and efforts to coerce states to conduct mass voter purges during the ‘quiet period’ are also illegal under the NVRA, despite DOJ arguments to the…
The DOJ should also drop its litigation to obtain state voter rolls and its continued threats to prosecute election officials.
ICE arrested 51,000 people in the month of July, the largest in a single month in DHS history. And again, the vast majority are not dangerous, violent criminals.
We should never accept an America where federal agents hide their faces, abuse their authority, or take life without oversight and accountability.
We are writing to remind you that any efforts directing states to conduct mass voter purges, including by using the deeply flawed Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) program to purge voter rolls, would violate the 90-day…
This is out in the open—Donald Trump is the most corrupt president in American history. Despite already being the richest president in history, President Trump’s number one priority in office is to make himself richer while everyday…





