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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Kim Alexander, president of the California Voter Foundation, called Trump’s order an “extremely alarming” attempt to sow distrust ahead of the election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s sending a very clear message: if there’s anything we can count on right now, it is that we are going to continue to see these attacks on vote-by-mail all the way until November,” she said on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101913446/planning-to-vote-by-mail-this-november-what-californians-need-to-know\">KQED’s Forum\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta said Trump’s order directs the beginning of a lengthy rulemaking process, making it unlikely that it will have any effect on California’s June 2 primary, even in the absence of court action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But it could … affect and impact the midterms through the November election and, of course, all the more reason and all the import for us to bring our legal case forward,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the lawsuit, Bonta and the other attorneys general argue that the Constitution vests the powers to regulate elections solely with the states and Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055174\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055174\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Brett-Kavanaugh-Getty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Brett-Kavanaugh-Getty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Brett-Kavanaugh-Getty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Brett-Kavanaugh-Getty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left to right: Chief Justice of the Supreme Court John Roberts, Justice Elena Kagan, Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, and retired Justice Anthony Kennedy attend U.S. President Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol on March 4, 2025 in Washington, D.C. President Trump was expected to address Congress on his early achievements of his presidency and his upcoming legislative agenda. \u003ccite>(Win McNamee/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Neither the Constitution nor any act of Congress confers upon the President the authority to mandate sweeping changes to States’ electoral systems or procedures,” they wrote in the complaint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The executive order is just one of many \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077846/threats-to-californias-vote-by-mail-mount-before-june-primary\">headwinds\u003c/a> facing California’s system of universal vote-by-mail. Trump is pushing for legislation in Congress that would ban states from automatically sending every voter a ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the U.S. Supreme Court is considering a challenge to state laws (like one in California) that allow ballots cast by Election Day to be counted even if they arrive days later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the local level, Bonta is also locked in a legal battle against Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, a Republican candidate for governor, over mail ballots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12063671\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12063671\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/RobBontaAP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/RobBontaAP.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/RobBontaAP-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/RobBontaAP-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Attorney General Rob Bonta speaks to reporters as Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes, left, and Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield, right, listen outside the Supreme Court on Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2025, in Washington, D.C. \u003ccite>(Mark Schiefelbein/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, Bianco seized ballots cast in the 2025 election in a self-described attempt to investigate fraud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state has sued Bianco, challenging his assertion that there was any criminal activity that warranted such a seizure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit is ongoing, but earlier this week, Bianco said he would \u003ca href=\"https://www.kvcrnews.org/local-news/2026-03-31/3-31-kvcr-midday-news-riverside-sherriffs-election-probe-on-hold-another-adelanto-detainee-found-dead-more\">pause\u003c/a> his inquiry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003c!-- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ -->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/\">Sign up\u003c/a> for their newsletters.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CalMatters and a national consortium of news organizations on Wednesday \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/27968649-20260401-bianco-as-filed-motion-to-unseal/\">filed a motion\u003c/a> in Riverside County court seeking public access to the warrants a judge approved \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077421/california-asks-court-to-halt-riverside-sheriffs-recount-of-2025-election-ballots\">allowing Sheriff Chad Bianco to seize\u003c/a> hundreds of thousands of ballots for an unprecedented investigation into the outcome of the November 2025 special election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The groups are also filing a separate petition with the California Supreme Court that also seeks to have the records unsealed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Riverside County judge had ordered the warrants sealed, along with the sworn statements Bianco’s deputies made to a judge justifying their request to seize more than 1,400 boxes of Proposition 50 election materials from the Riverside County Registrar of Voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawyers representing CalMatters along with The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Riverside Record, other newspapers and local television network affiliates filed a motion to unseal the warrants and the sworn statements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027241\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027241\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/GettyImages-2177538092-scaled-e1772065676173.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1229\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco addresses supporters of U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump during a rally in Coachella, California, on Oct. 12, 2024. \u003ccite>(Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The coalition argues that it’s vitally important for the records to be made public, since they’re central to a bitter dispute over election integrity between two powerful state officials: Bianco, who is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/2026-governors-race\">running for governor\u003c/a> as a Republican, and Attorney General \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/rob-bonta\">Rob Bonta\u003c/a>, a Democrat who is running for re-election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The public should not be forced to navigate these competing allegations without the facts on which the investigation is based,” Jean-Paul Jassy, attorney for the news outlets, wrote in the motion. “Nor does the law require them to.”[aside postID=news_12077491 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/022425-Chad-Bianco-MB-Rueters-01-CM.jpg']Bianco obtained three warrants in February and March from Riverside County Judge Jay Kiel authorizing the sheriff’s office to begin seizing ballots and other election materials from Riverside County elections officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kiel, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/03/chad-bianco-ballots-seized-riverside/\">whom Bianco endorsed\u003c/a> when he ran for the bench in 2022, sealed the warrants at the request of the sheriff’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bianco intended for his deputies to recount the more than 600,000 ballots cast in the county last year as part of an investigation over what a local activist group called discrepancies between the number of ballots cast and number tallied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county’s top elections official, Art Tinoco, has rejected those claims and explained in February to the county’s Board of Supervisors that they were the result of the activist group using flawed and incomplete data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The investigation and recount are on hold, Bianco said earlier this week, after Bonta and the UCLA Voting Rights Project filed several legal challenges seeking to halt them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta had ordered Bianco to turn over the warrants and supporting statements. He said in his lawsuits that the sheriff had failed to allege a crime or provide enough cause to justify seizing the ballots, and accused Bianco of using the investigation as a campaign stunt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058864\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058864\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RobBontaTrumpGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RobBontaTrumpGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RobBontaTrumpGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RobBontaTrumpGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Attorney General Rob Bonta is briefed by members of his Civil Rights Enforcement Section on litigation challenging the Trump administration at his offices in downtown Los Angeles, California, on March 11, 2025. \u003ccite>(Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bonta’s office has refused to release those documents, citing the judge’s order sealing them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keeping them under seal has prevented the public from being able to scrutinize both politicians’ statements, in a hyper-partisan dispute ahead of a contentious election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bianco, in an interview last week, also refused CalMatters’ request for copies of the warrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No, you’re not going to,” he said. “When (the investigation’s) over, like every other case that’s sealed, when it’s unsealed, you’ll get to see it. … Don’t you act like this is something out of the ordinary, because it is not.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under state law, police must execute warrants within 10 days of obtaining them, after which the documents and the police’s supporting statements must be made public. But it is common for law enforcement to ask for them to remain sealed during active criminal investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the ballot case, attorneys for the media outlets argue Bianco himself publicized the investigation during a press conference on March 20. They wrote that even if Bianco’s department had confidential information to protect, that does not justify Kiel’s sealing of all the records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062153\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062153\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/Prop50APPhoto.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/Prop50APPhoto.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/Prop50APPhoto-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/Prop50APPhoto-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Los Angeles County Election officials assist a voter during California’s Proposition 50 election on Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025, at the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder’s headquarters in Norwalk, California. \u003ccite>(Damian Dovarganes/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It is hard to imagine a stronger public interest,” Jassy wrote, than “access to a proceeding purporting to resolve allegations relating to election integrity — allegations at the heart of our democracy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case reached the state Supreme Court after Bonta filed an emergency petition seeking to halt Bianco’s ballot-seizure investigation. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/03/bonta-chad-bianco-ballots/\">A lower court ruled Bianco’s investigation could proceed\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/04/riverside-ballots-seized-lawsuit-transparency/\">originally published on CalMatters\u003c/a> and was republished under the \u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives\u003c/a> license.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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He said in his lawsuits that the sheriff had failed to allege a crime or provide enough cause to justify seizing the ballots, and accused Bianco of using the investigation as a campaign stunt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058864\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058864\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RobBontaTrumpGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RobBontaTrumpGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RobBontaTrumpGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RobBontaTrumpGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Attorney General Rob Bonta is briefed by members of his Civil Rights Enforcement Section on litigation challenging the Trump administration at his offices in downtown Los Angeles, California, on March 11, 2025. \u003ccite>(Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bonta’s office has refused to release those documents, citing the judge’s order sealing them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keeping them under seal has prevented the public from being able to scrutinize both politicians’ statements, in a hyper-partisan dispute ahead of a contentious election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bianco, in an interview last week, also refused CalMatters’ request for copies of the warrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No, you’re not going to,” he said. “When (the investigation’s) over, like every other case that’s sealed, when it’s unsealed, you’ll get to see it. … Don’t you act like this is something out of the ordinary, because it is not.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under state law, police must execute warrants within 10 days of obtaining them, after which the documents and the police’s supporting statements must be made public. But it is common for law enforcement to ask for them to remain sealed during active criminal investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the ballot case, attorneys for the media outlets argue Bianco himself publicized the investigation during a press conference on March 20. They wrote that even if Bianco’s department had confidential information to protect, that does not justify Kiel’s sealing of all the records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062153\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062153\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/Prop50APPhoto.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/Prop50APPhoto.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/Prop50APPhoto-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/Prop50APPhoto-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Los Angeles County Election officials assist a voter during California’s Proposition 50 election on Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025, at the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder’s headquarters in Norwalk, California. \u003ccite>(Damian Dovarganes/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It is hard to imagine a stronger public interest,” Jassy wrote, than “access to a proceeding purporting to resolve allegations relating to election integrity — allegations at the heart of our democracy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case reached the state Supreme Court after Bonta filed an emergency petition seeking to halt Bianco’s ballot-seizure investigation. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/03/bonta-chad-bianco-ballots/\">A lower court ruled Bianco’s investigation could proceed\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/04/riverside-ballots-seized-lawsuit-transparency/\">originally published on CalMatters\u003c/a> and was republished under the \u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives\u003c/a> license.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>[This column was reported for Political Breakdown, a bi-monthly newsletter offering analysis and context on Bay Area and California political news. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/newsletters/political-breakdown\">Click here to subscribe\u003c/a>.]\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s expansive system of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/vote-by-mail\">vote-by-mail\u003c/a> is facing a two-pronged attack driven by President Donald Trump’s spurious attempts – without evidence – to discredit mail voting as electoral cheating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the local level, Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, a Republican running for governor, has seized all ballots cast within his county during the November 2025 election to conduct what he calls an investigation into potential fraud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conservative justices on the Supreme Court also raised the specter of potential fraud this week as they \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/03/23/nx-s1-5757916/supreme-court-considers-laws-allowing-mail-in-votes-to-be-counted-after-election-day\">questioned\u003c/a> a Mississippi law, similar to one in California, that allows ballots postmarked by Election Day to be received and counted up to five days later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jenny Farrell, the executive director of the League of Women Voters of California, told me that taken together, the developments are part of “a growing pattern of actions both in California and nationally that risk undermining public confidence in our elections.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bianco’s office seized roughly 1,000 boxes – about 650,000 ballots – from the Riverside County Registrar of Voters in late February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His reasoning: A citizens group called the Riverside Election Integrity Team, said their audit of ballot intake forms found just 611,426 ballots — 45,896 short of the county’s final count of 657,322 votes. The local group claimed officials overstated the tally in an election where California voters overwhelmingly approved \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/proposition-50\">Proposition 50\u003c/a>, a Democratic redistricting plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The investigation is going to determine what the discrepancy is,” Bianco said at a news conference Friday. “Is it human error? Is it machine error?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhzqeYHkhtU&t=2s&pp=ygUncml2ZXJzaWRlIGJvYXJkIG9mIHN1cGVydmlzb3JzIGZlYnJ1YXJ5\">presentation\u003c/a> to the Riverside County Board of Supervisors in February, Registrar of Voters Art Tinoco said the ballot intake forms, filled out by hand by volunteers at voting locations, were not a reliable source to compare to the final vote count — which takes place after a machine scan of ballots at county offices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are completed in the field by election officers during long work days — let’s keep that in mind, folks get tired,” Tinoco said. “It’s very possible that the staff may not have recorded the numbers accurately on these daily mail intake forms.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024173\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12024173\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/110524-Election-Fresno_LV_CM_20.jpg\" alt=\"A hand places a pieces of paper in the ballot box.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/110524-Election-Fresno_LV_CM_20.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/110524-Election-Fresno_LV_CM_20-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/110524-Election-Fresno_LV_CM_20-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/110524-Election-Fresno_LV_CM_20-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/110524-Election-Fresno_LV_CM_20-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/110524-Election-Fresno_LV_CM_20-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A voter casts a mail-in ballot at a polling site at Fresno City College in Fresno on Nov. 5, 2024. California’s vote-by-mail system is facing renewed legal and political challenges. \u003ccite>(Larry Valenzuela/CalMatters/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>County supervisors vowed to look further into the ballot intake forms. But Bianco’s move to seize the ballots was “unprecedented,” said Matt Barreto, faculty director of the UCLA Voting Rights Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The single most important thing is having transparency and trust in the counting of the ballots,” Barreto said. “In no election should law enforcement officials be seizing ballots, removing them from the county and doing a private and separate count.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After all, Bianco is a leading candidate for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12075943/a-crowded-race-for-california-governor\">governor\u003c/a> in the state’s June 2 primary. Any move to align himself with Trump’s crusade against mail voting could help Bianco overtake his Republican rival in the race, commentator Steve Hilton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s certainly pursuing it only for publicity, not for election integrity,” Barreto said — a charge Bianco denied at his press conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a lawsuit filed Monday, California Attorney Rob Bonta asked the state’s 4th District Court of Appeal to freeze Bianco’s investigation and halt a new count of ballots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Sheriff has not identified any particular crime that may have been committed by anyone — a necessary predicate to obtain a criminal search warrant,” Bonta’s office said in a statement. “By all appearances, this investigation is little more than a fishing expedition meant to sow distrust and undermine public confidence in our elections.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a three-judge panel on the appeals court denied Bonta’s petition on Tuesday and instructed the attorney general to file his suit with a lower court instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No one appears more determined to discredit vote-by-mail than Trump, who this week said, “mail-in voting means mail-in cheating.”[aside postID=news_11985554 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-1244637624-scaled.jpg']Trump and Republicans in Congress are advocating for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12035487/the-house-has-passed-the-trump-backed-save-act-here-are-8-things-to-know\">SAVE Act\u003c/a>, which would ban states such as California from automatically mailing all voters a ballot and instead require voters to submit an application and show proof-of-citizenship documents in order to receive a mail ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While that bill faces uncertain prospects of clearing the Senate, the U.S. Supreme Court could soon block states from counting ballots that arrive by mail after Election Day. In California, ballots postmarked by Election Day can be counted if they are received up to one week later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During \u003ca href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2025/24-1260_8njq.pdf\">oral arguments\u003c/a> Monday in \u003cem>Watson v. National Republican Committee\u003c/em>, a challenge to Mississippi’s voting rules, conservative Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Samuel Alito raised concern that significant changes in results in the days and weeks after Election Day — a common occurrence in closely-contested California races — could undermine public confidence in elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of the briefs have argued that confidence in election outcomes can be seriously undermined if the apparent outcome of the election on the day after the polls close is radically flipped by the acceptance later of a big stash of ballots that flip the election,” Alito said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In reality, a relatively small number of ballots arrive days after the election in California, said \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11985554/shasta-county-elections-chief-who-fought-far-right-extremists-reflects-on-democracy\">Cathy Darling Allen\u003c/a>, the former registrar of voters in Shasta County. The real slowdown comes from the sheer volume of ballots that arrive on Election Day, she said, with each requiring election workers to conduct a signature match before it can be counted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To speed up the count, Darling Allen said, counties need money for more election workers — and larger facilities for ballots and machines. “We need more space, not only to store ballots after elections, but also to process them,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A decision to limit the ballot-arrival window is only likely to add more headaches in the June 2 primary, Darling Allen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A decision in the Watson case is expected in late June, right as California must certify its June primary results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What does that mean for the ballots that were received on June 3rd or 4th or 5th in California?” Darling Allen said. “Are registrars going to have to segregate those ballots? 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The local group claimed officials overstated the tally in an election where California voters overwhelmingly approved \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/proposition-50\">Proposition 50\u003c/a>, a Democratic redistricting plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The investigation is going to determine what the discrepancy is,” Bianco said at a news conference Friday. “Is it human error? 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California’s vote-by-mail system is facing renewed legal and political challenges. \u003ccite>(Larry Valenzuela/CalMatters/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>County supervisors vowed to look further into the ballot intake forms. But Bianco’s move to seize the ballots was “unprecedented,” said Matt Barreto, faculty director of the UCLA Voting Rights Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The single most important thing is having transparency and trust in the counting of the ballots,” Barreto said. “In no election should law enforcement officials be seizing ballots, removing them from the county and doing a private and separate count.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After all, Bianco is a leading candidate for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12075943/a-crowded-race-for-california-governor\">governor\u003c/a> in the state’s June 2 primary. 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Two programs in the U.S. are trying to change that, and one is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kvpr.org/education/2026-03-10/it-really-opened-my-eyes-valley-students-get-firsthand-training-as-911-dispatchers\">in the San Joaquin Valley. \u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">An appeals court \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/03/bonta-chad-bianco-ballots/\">has denied the state attorney general’s request\u003c/a> to stop Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco’s effort to recount ballots from last year’s special election.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A new poll from the California Democratic Party shows two Republicans leading the state’s crowded race for governor, and nearly a quarter of voters still undecided.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kvpr.org/education/2026-03-10/it-really-opened-my-eyes-valley-students-get-firsthand-training-as-911-dispatchers\">\u003cstrong>Central Valley students get firsthand training as 911 dispatchers\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Fresno County Superintendent of Schools recently unveiled the state’s first mobile 911 dispatch training center. It’s for students in a career technical education program, and it travels to high school campuses across the Central Valley that offer criminal justice courses. It will stay at Matilda Torres for two weeks, then it moves on to schools in Clovis, Caruthers, Mendota, and other towns in Fresno and Madera counties – and it will return next year to make the same rounds once again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though the calls are simulated and powered by artificial intelligence, Matilda Torres High School senior Jacqueline Gutierrez said they felt real the moment she put on her headset. “It did feel really real, like in the adrenaline, your hands are shaking,” Gutierrez said. “You could hear gunshots going off in the background, it gets your nerves up. But you have to remind yourself to calm down, because you have to be calm in that situation, because you’re the one helping the person.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goal is simple: give students real-world training early, and prepare them for careers in public safety. Once students complete 20 hours in the trailer, they also earn college credits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reyna Martinez is a dispatch supervisor with the Fresno County Sheriff’s Office. She helps run the simulations, and she says the intensity of the training is intentional. “We can choose the voice, how the voice sounds like, if they’re panicked, if they’re polite, if they’re whispering, if they’re yelling,” Martinez said. “We can also create background noises, things like that, to make it as realistic as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students answer the phone, ask questions, and gather all the critical details – just like in a real emergency. “I try to base it on actual calls that we have, the type of scenario,” Martinez said. “Other things will obviously be changed for them and then made so that it is appropriate for high school students.” When the call ends, an AI tool scores their performance based on how well they handled the emergency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This kind of training is becoming increasingly important. Across the country, dispatch centers are struggling to find workers. In 2022, a study by the federal government estimated that nearly a third of emergency centers reported high vacancy rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"entry-title \">\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/03/bonta-chad-bianco-ballots/\">\u003cstrong>Court denies California’s bid to halt Riverside sheriff’s recount of 2025 election ballots\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A California court on Tuesday quickly denied Attorney General Rob Bonta’s request to halt the Riverside County Sheriff Department’s effort to recount ballots from the November 2025 special election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an unprecedented move, Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, a Republican who is \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/tag/california-governor-2026-election/\">running for governor\u003c/a>, seized roughly 650,000 ballots and began conducting a recount of votes. At a press conference Friday, he characterized the investigation as a “fact-finding mission” that is intended “just as much to prove the election is accurate as it is to show otherwise.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta’s office this month ordered Bianco and the Riverside County Sheriff Department to pause its work, citing “grave concerns” over the legality of the criminal investigation. The state Justice Department instructed the sheriff’s department to share any information that could substantiate its concerns in order to understand the basis for the investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those orders went unheeded, according to court filings. Bonta’s lawsuit in the 4th District Court of Appeal, filed Monday, asked that the court intervene in order “to prevent further abuse of the criminal process.” But a three-judge panel struck down Bonta’s request, writing that he should have filed his complaint with the Riverside County court. Bonta’s office said they were “evaluating next steps to ensure a swift and appropriate resolution to this matter.” “The Sheriff has not identified any particular crime that may have been committed by anyone — a necessary predicate to obtain a criminal search warrant,” said the attorney general’s office in an earlier statement to CalMatters. “The Riverside County Sheriff’s Office is not equipped nor legally authorized to play the role of elections monitor. By all appearances, this investigation is little more than a fishing expedition meant to sow distrust and undermine public confidence in our elections.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta has taken particular issue with the sworn statements that Bianco has made to a Riverside County judge to obtain warrants allowing him to seize the ballots. The sheriff got two warrants in February and another last week after receiving a complaint about ballot discrepancies from a Riverside County citizens’ group. Bonta has said the sheriff’s department statements his office reviewed did not establish enough probable cause to justify seizing election materials. The citizens’ group claimed Riverside County elections officials overstated the number of ballots counted in the November special election over Democrat-drawn congressional maps. Registrar of Voters Art Tinoco has denied the group’s claims and told county supervisors last month the group was using incomplete data that did not include confidential, provisional and other ballots his office received.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"entry-title \">\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletter/california-candidates-usc-debate/\">\u003cstrong>CA Democratic governor hopefuls not bowing out\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Ten weeks before the primary election, California Democrats still haven’t narrowed down the field of candidates enough to reduce the chances of splitting the vote so much that two Republicans make it to the ballot in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s what \u003ca href=\"https://cadem.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/CA-Voter-Index-Baseline-Survey-03.23.26.pdf\">polling released by the Democratic Party\u003c/a> on Tuesday showed, with the two GOP candidates — Riverside County Sheriff \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/03/bonta-chad-bianco-ballots/\">Chad Bianco\u003c/a> and former Fox News host Steve Hilton — tied for the lead, and Democrats Rep. 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In 2022, a study by the federal government estimated that nearly a third of emergency centers reported high vacancy rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"entry-title \">\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/03/bonta-chad-bianco-ballots/\">\u003cstrong>Court denies California’s bid to halt Riverside sheriff’s recount of 2025 election ballots\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A California court on Tuesday quickly denied Attorney General Rob Bonta’s request to halt the Riverside County Sheriff Department’s effort to recount ballots from the November 2025 special election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an unprecedented move, Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, a Republican who is \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/tag/california-governor-2026-election/\">running for governor\u003c/a>, seized roughly 650,000 ballots and began conducting a recount of votes. 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Bonta’s office said they were “evaluating next steps to ensure a swift and appropriate resolution to this matter.” “The Sheriff has not identified any particular crime that may have been committed by anyone — a necessary predicate to obtain a criminal search warrant,” said the attorney general’s office in an earlier statement to CalMatters. “The Riverside County Sheriff’s Office is not equipped nor legally authorized to play the role of elections monitor. By all appearances, this investigation is little more than a fishing expedition meant to sow distrust and undermine public confidence in our elections.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta has taken particular issue with the sworn statements that Bianco has made to a Riverside County judge to obtain warrants allowing him to seize the ballots. The sheriff got two warrants in February and another last week after receiving a complaint about ballot discrepancies from a Riverside County citizens’ group. 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At a press conference Friday, he characterized the investigation as a “fact-finding mission” that is intended “just as much to prove the election is accurate as it is to show otherwise.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bianco is neck-and-neck with Republican Steve Hilton for lead in the race for governor, polls show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta’s office this month ordered Bianco and the Riverside County Sheriff Department to pause its work, citing “grave concerns” over the legality of the criminal investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Justice Department instructed the sheriff’s department to share any information that could substantiate its concerns in order to understand the basis for the investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those orders went unheeded, according to court filings. The lawsuit in the 4th District Court of Appeal, filed Monday, asked that the court intervene in order “to prevent further abuse of the criminal process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Sheriff has not identified any particular crime that may have been committed by anyone — a necessary predicate to obtain a criminal search warrant,” said the attorney general’s office in a statement to CalMatters. “The Riverside County Sheriff’s Office is not equipped nor legally authorized to play the role of elections monitor. 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The sheriff got two warrants in February and another last week after receiving a complaint about ballot discrepancies from a Riverside County citizens’ group. Bonta has said the sheriff’s department statements his office reviewed did not establish enough probable cause to justify seizing election materials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None of the sworn statements or the evidence Bianco presented can be judged by the public because the warrants are under seal in the Riverside County Superior Court and redacted in Bonta’s court filings over the issue. The warrants were approved by Judge Jay Kiel, a former prosecutor who ran for the seat in 2022 with Bianco’s endorsement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The citizens’ group claimed Riverside County elections officials overstated the number of ballots counted in the November special election over Democrat-drawn congressional maps. Registrar of Voters Art Tinoco has denied the group’s claims and told county supervisors last month the group was using incomplete data that did not include confidential, provisional and other ballots his office received.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement to CalMatters, Bianco criticized Bonta, a Democrat who has been the state’s top law enforcement officer since 2021.[aside postID=news_12075174 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260226-GovRaceForum-14-BL_qed.jpg']“The questions should be directed only toward Bonta. Why would you interfere and obstruct an investigation instead of assist? What are you afraid of? Bonta is a corrupt political activist put in place by Gavin Newsom to run cover for the corruption in Sacramento,” Bianco said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voter fraud is rare in California, and nationwide, studies have consistently \u003ca href=\"https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2103619118\">found\u003c/a>. A database maintained by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative organization that often highlights the issue, shows just 71 cases of voter fraud convictions in California over the past 32 years. California counted more than 11.5 million ballots in the November special election alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bianco last week said that his own yearslong probe of election systems in Riverside County has “not found any mass fraud.” He said he had uncovered “isolated incidents” that he’s referred to local prosecutors. 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The states are asking the U.S. Court of International Trade to declare the tariffs unlawful and refund money already collected, with interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Section 122 was enacted in 1974 to address a specific type of financial crisis tied to a fixed exchange rate system, during a time when currencies were tied to a set value like gold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070783\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1980px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070783\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GettyImages-2256680653.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1980\" height=\"1320\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GettyImages-2256680653.jpg 1980w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GettyImages-2256680653-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GettyImages-2256680653-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1980px) 100vw, 1980px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent speaks at the 56th World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 20, 2026. \u003ccite>(Harun Ozalp/Anadolu via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The U.S. abandoned that system just two years later in favor of today’s floating rate system, where currency values fluctuate freely on global markets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is an archaic statute that was never intended for its current purpose as used by the Trump administration,” Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For California, the financial stakes of global trade policy are significant. The state is the fourth largest economy in the world, the nation’s largest importer and its second largest exporter. Previous International Emergency Economic Powers Act tariffs cost each American between roughly\u003ca href=\"https://budgetlab.yale.edu/research/state-us-tariffs-january-19-2026\"> $1,000 and $2,000\u003c/a> over the course of a year, Bonta said — or an estimated $40 billion to $80 billion in costs to Californians alone.[aside postID=news_12074141 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/DonaldTrumpTariffsAP.jpg']The new Section 122 tariffs, if allowed to stand, are estimated to cost the average American household an additional $200 to $600 per year, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the President of the United States, twice, to act unlawfully to raise prices after promising the American people he would lower prices, I think that tells you all you need to know,” Bonta said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s economy has already shown signs of strain from the administration’s trade policy. Businesses in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12036939/san-francisco-chinatown-businesses-survival-mode-trade-war\">San Francisco’s Chinatown\u003c/a> have struggled to stay afloat amid the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/trade-war\">trade war\u003c/a>, and officials at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12037649/trumps-tariffs-are-stifling-shipping-demand-at-port-of-oakland-officials-warn\">Port of Oakland\u003c/a> warned that tariffs would stifle shipping demand at one of the West Coast’s busiest trade hubs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12039333/california-farmers-hit-hard-trumps-trade-war-havent-turned-against-him-yet\">California farmers\u003c/a>, who depend heavily on export relationships with Canada and other trading partners, have also raised alarms about disruptions to long-standing trade ties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit also challenges Trump’s justification for invoking it. To use Section 122, a president must identify a “large and serious” balance-of-payments deficit — but the complaint argues Trump mischaracterized the term by focusing only on the nation’s goods trade deficit while ignoring a financial account surplus of roughly $1.13 trillion in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048615\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048615\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/025_KQED_SchnitzerSteelPortofOakland_03082022_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/025_KQED_SchnitzerSteelPortofOakland_03082022_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/025_KQED_SchnitzerSteelPortofOakland_03082022_qed-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/025_KQED_SchnitzerSteelPortofOakland_03082022_qed-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Schnitzer Steel manufacturing facility shreds scrap metal at the Port of Oakland on March 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When all components are properly included, the lawsuit said, the actual U.S. balance of payments position amounted to approximately negative $53 billion, or about 0.2% of GDP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A trade deficit is not a balance of payment deficit,” Bonta said. “The president either doesn’t know the difference, or he doesn’t care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit also marks the 60th time California has sued the White House since Trump took office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/california\">California\u003c/a> government officials are calling for refund checks following Friday’s Supreme Court ruling slapping down President \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\">Donald Trump\u003c/a>’s unilateral tariffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court’s 6-3 decision found that Trump’s imposition of tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) was illegal. The decision followed a year of market anxiety and global tensions over the sweeping economic changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump was quick to attack the ruling, saying on Friday that he was “absolutely ashamed” of the court’s decision, and has dismissed calls for refunds. The president said he is seeking to reimpose a global 10% tariff through other means.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These tariffs were nothing more than an illegal cash grab that drove up prices and hurt working families, so you could wreck longstanding alliances and extort them,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said in a statement on Friday after the ruling. “Every dollar unlawfully taken must be refunded immediately — with interest. Cough up!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court ruling did not say whether or how businesses are entitled to refunds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a press conference on Friday, Attorney General Rob Bonta said that those seeking claims could attempt to go through the Court of International Trade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12063671\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12063671\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/RobBontaAP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/RobBontaAP.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/RobBontaAP-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/RobBontaAP-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Attorney General Rob Bonta speaks to reporters as Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes, left, and Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield, right, listen outside the Supreme Court on Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2025, in Washington, D.C. \u003ccite>(Mark Schiefelbein/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“California is going to remain vigilant as the refund process moves forward to ensure that businesses harmed by these illegal tariffs receive the relief that they’re owed,” Bonta said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent report from a U.S. Senate committee found that American consumers have paid tens of billions of dollars in tariff costs over the past year, averaging more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.jec.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/democrats/press-releases?ID=9E4D02A7-A9B3-4307-A11D-D44F6C1A60F8\">$1,700 per family\u003c/a>. Businesses across the Bay Area and the country have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034827/bay-area-business-already-tough-trumps-tariffs-preparing-pain\">struggled\u003c/a> to shoulder the\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025963/bay-area-businesses-brace-higher-import-costs-trumps-new-tariffs\"> rising costs of international goods\u003c/a>, from construction materials to toilet paper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve got the largest port infrastructure in the nation. We are the fourth-largest economy in the world. We do trade with pretty much every major region of the world that you can think of. This is big,” Xavier Becerra, a former U.S. Health and Human Services secretary, who is now running for California governor, told KQED. “Thank god we now have a ruling that at least tells us that Donald Trump can’t cause this chaos with his tariff mania.”[aside postID=news_12064613 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/GettyImages-2209401664-1020x718.jpg']But officials at the Port of Oakland, one of the biggest import and export hubs on the West Coast, took a cautious view of Friday’s ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We expect this will not be the final word on trade and tariffs,” said Bryan Brandes, maritime director at the Port of Oakland. “Our trade community seeks stability and certainty, as increased volume at the Port of Oakland means increased prosperity across the region.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Total imports at the Port of Oakland were down in some months in 2025, but overall, the terminal had a slight increase from September 2024 to September 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In last month’s State of the Port address, Executive Director Kristi McKenney said maritime operations remained steady despite short-term dips.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tariffs imposed under IEEPA were projected to cost California’s economy $25 billion and result in the loss of over 64,000 jobs, according to data from the Attorney General’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The order comes after several states, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12036199/trumps-tariffs-could-wreck-californias-economy-the-state-is-suing\">California, sued the Trump administration\u003c/a> in April 2025 for abuse of power by issuing the tariffs without congressional approval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tariffs “have been creating chaos and uncertainty. 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Attorney General Rob Bonta said they want to find out if race, age or disability discrimination were factors during the emergency response in the historically Black community of west Altadena.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Amah Mutsun Tribal Band and environmental groups are \u003ca href=\"https://www.kazu.org/kazu-news/2026-02-02/land-trust-buys-2-300-acres-near-gilroy-ending-controversial-mining-proposal\">celebrating the purchase\u003c/a> of Sargent Ranch by the Peninsula Open Space Trust.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Valentine’s Day for many means heart shaped candies and chocolates. But if romance is not your thing, visitors to San Francisco’s Exploratorium can interact with the actual organ. \u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">An environmental advocate who helped build the community of fans around Big Bear’s bald eagles \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/climate-environment/sandy-steers-the-leader-behind-big-bears-bald-eagle-fans-has-died\">has died.\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2 class=\"ArticlePage-headline\">\u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/west-altadena-eaton-fire-bonta-investigation-civil-rights\">California launches civil rights investigation into Eaton Fire response in Altadena\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The state of California is launching an investigation stemming from the Eaton Fire to determine whether race, age or disability discrimination were factors during the emergency response in the historically Black community of west Altadena.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ll be looking at whether the systems and structures at play contributed to a delay in the County’s evacuation notice and possible disparities in emergency response,” state Attorney General Rob Bonta said Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The investigation follows reporting by the Los Angeles Times that found west Altadena received late evacuation alerts when compared to east Altadena. Eighteen of the 19 people who died in the fire lived in west Altadena, and nearly half of all black households in Altadena were lost, according to a fire survivors group. The investigation is “a trailblazing move for civil rights and environmental justice,” the group Altadena for Accountability said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The civil rights investigation is expected to assess Los Angeles County’s emergency response through a disparate impact analysis — meaning it does not have to find discriminatory intent in order to prove violations of civil rights protections occurred. “There is a long history of marginalized communities receiving less support during times of crisis,” said fire survivor Shimica Gaskins. “This may be the most consequential act taken by any official in California for accountability since the fires ravaged Los Angeles.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"ArtP-headline\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kazu.org/kazu-news/2026-02-02/land-trust-buys-2-300-acres-near-gilroy-ending-controversial-mining-proposal\">\u003cstrong>Land trust buys 2,300 acres near Gilroy, ending controversial mining proposal\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Amah Mutsun Tribal Band and environmental groups are celebrating \u003ca href=\"https://openspacetrust.org/post-news/sargent-ranch/\">the purchase of Sargent Ranch by the Peninsula Open Space Trust.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A sand and gravel quarry had been proposed for the 2,300 acres southwest of Gilroy. POST’s acquisition will instead protect the space as a wildlife corridor and cultural site. The land trust’s president Gordon Clark said buying the property had been a goal for twenty years because of its ecological importance. “It connects the Santa Cruz mountains and the San Francisco Peninsula to really the rest of California,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>POST now owns over 6,000 acres of the 6,500-acre property. It plans to buy the rest this year and work with partners on a vision for the land, known to the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band as Juristac. Chairman Ed Ketchum said it has spiritual significance and is a place where his ancestors collected medicine. “The area hasn’t been open to us for 200 years, so we look forward in the near future to exploring and finding more about the lands and why our ancestors consider this such a important spot,” Ketchum said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Exploratorium exhibit gives heart cells a beat \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On this Valentine’s weekend, many people will be receiving heart-shaped candies and chocolates. But if romance is not your thing, visitors to San Francisco’s Exploratorium can \u003ca href=\"https://www.exploratorium.edu/exhibits/give-heart-cells-a-beat\">interact with the actual organ.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a television screen above the floor of the Exploratorium, visitors can watch a live human heart cell as it beats under a microscope. These are real human cells. Amanda Marywhether is a senior researcher at the museum. She said the exhibit lets visitors dive into an exploration of how the heart works. “Nowhere else can a visitor see stem cells that have been differentiated into heart cells and actually do something to them,” Marywhether said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The exhibit is one of several designed by the Exploratorium’s Biolab team to give audiences a rare view of the circulatory system in action. The displays are featured by the museum year round.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"ArticlePage-headline\">\u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/climate-environment/sandy-steers-the-leader-behind-big-bears-bald-eagle-fans-has-died\">\u003cstrong>Sandy Steers, the Big Bear Valley advocate who fostered community of bald eagle fans, has died\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Sandy Steers, an environmental advocate and head of the nonprofit \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://friendsofbigbearvalley.org/eagle-history/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">\u003cu>Friends of Big Bear Valley\u003c/u>\u003c/a> who helped build a legion of fans for the area’s bald eagles, has died. She was 73.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nonprofit announced on social media “with heavy hearts and great sadness” that Steers, the organization’s executive director, died Wednesday evening. More than a decade ago, Steers’ fascination with the first recently recorded bald eagle \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://friendsofbigbearvalley.org/eagle-history/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">\u003cu>chick hatched in Big Bear Valley\u003c/u>\u003c/a> led to years of planning and fundraising to install a camera in the eagles’ nest overlooking Big Bear Lake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cameras are now part of a \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4-L2nfGcuE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">\u003cu>popular YouTube livestream run by Friends of Big Bear Valley \u003c/u>\u003c/a>and followed by tens of thousands of fans around the world who watch eagles Jackie and Shadow each season, particularly when they \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://laist.com/news/climate-environment/big-bear-bald-eagle-jackie-shadow-nest-eggs-attacked\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">lay eggs\u003c/a> and care for their offspring. “Something about Jackie and Shadow, or the view, or the whole thing — it just kind of took on a life of its own,” Steers told LAist in 2024. Friends of Big Bear Valley told LAist Thursday that Steers had an enormous heart, loved nature and wanted to help connect people with it. “She was fiercely protective of all wildlife in Big Bear Valley and everywhere,” Jenny Voisard, the organization’s media manager, said in an email. “She was an amazing leader. She was a calming, healing and creative soul.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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