With just three months left before Californians cast their ballots in the primary, new proposals in the Legislature aim to keep the Trump administration out of state elections.
Two new legislative proposals co-authored by CA Democratic State Senators Tom Umberg and Sabrina Cervantes would prevent officers from enforcing federal immigration law within 200 feet of a polling place and would bar the federal government from inspecting voting equipment without a federal court order
Weeks after President Donald Trump suggested on a conservative podcast that the Republican Party should “nationalize” voting in the United States, California lawmakers are floating proposals to limit federal presence in elections.
In an election year with the Trump administration’s widespread crackdown on immigration enforcement in the backdrop, a pair of California lawmakers are looking to shore up protections for voters.
A bill introduced this week by California lawmakers would ban federal immigration agents from being stationed outside polling places, responding to concerns that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers could interfere with voting during the November midterm elections.
Two California lawmakers introduced legislation late Thursday that would ban federal immigration enforcement outside polling places, the latest maneuver in the state’s ongoing battles with the Trump administration over both immigration and elections administration.
Could President Donald Trump be setting himself up to do what President Franklin D. Roosevelt did in 1941, by serving a third-term as president? While some folks have paid little mind to Trump’s occasional hints of staying in office longer, California Senator Tom Umberg isn’t leaving it to chance.
On February 10, 2026, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 25 (SB 25) into law, launching California’s version of the Uniform Antitrust Premerger Notification Act (UAPNA).
Newsom has signed a bill granting Attorney General Rob Bonta premerger review powers, adding California to the growing list of states enacting such laws. Though the law failed to receive an Assembly floor vote last year, it was revived late last month and lawmakers later passed it.