Trump OUTMATCHED as California CHECKMATES Him on ELECTIONS!!!

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Attorneys Brian Kabateck and Shant Karnikian break down Governor Newsom's signing of SB 884, the "Protect Our Polls Act," co-authored by Senator Tom Umberg, which creates a 200-foot buffer barring armed law enforcement — including ICE — from making arrests near California polling places unless a crime is actively occurring in their presence. Brian and Shant explain the law also lets counties expand electioneering buffers from 100 to 200 feet, requires law enforcement to report suspected violations to the Secretary of State and Attorney General, and allows election officials to extend polling hours if voting is disrupted by prohibited arrests or intimidation. Brian and Shant note California joins a small handful of states — Rhode Island, New Mexico, Connecticut, Virginia, Oregon, and Vermont — that have passed similar protections, all written broadly enough to cover any armed law enforcement presence, not just ICE, to survive legal challenge. Brian points to an existing but rarely discu