Alejandro "Alex" Padilla (born March 22, 1973) is an American politician and engineer serving as the senior United States senator from California, a seat he has held since 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, Padilla served as the 30th secretary of state of California from 2015 to 2021 and was a member of the California State Senate and the Los Angeles City Council.
Governor Gavin Newsom appointed Padilla to the United States Senate in 2021 after Kamala Harris was elected vice president of the United States; Harris, as the newly elected vice president and president of the Senate, swore Padilla in on January 18, 2021. In 2022, Padilla won a special election to complete Harris's term and election to a full Senate term.
Padilla became California's senior senator on September 29, 2023, upon the death of Dianne Feinstein.
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Date: 23 March 1973
NY Press Assn pres J Shanahan in lr to Sen S J Ervin Jr on March 22 urges Cong to pass legis 'that recognizes the right of newsmen absolutely to protect their confidential sources and information'
Date: 23 March 1973
By MARTIN ARNOLDSpecial to the New York Times
Dr M H Halperin, who supervised assembling of Pentagon papers, testifies on March 22 at Pentagon trial that in his opinion release of papers was not injurious to US because group that compiled papers did not have access to White House papers on war, nor to minutes of White House meetings, nor to memorandums between then Sec of State D Rusk and Presidents Kennedy and Johnson; holds papers do not present authorative view of thinking at highest levels of Govt about Vietnam war; says most high Govt officials express their true personal views of war in 'private conversations' or in memorandums circulated to only 2 or 3 persons; says that 1 of themes that ran through papers was what Govt had to tell Amer public 'to maintain support of the war'; says another theme was US's reluctance to begin negotiations to end the war; repts after papers were 1st disclosed in NY Times in June he turned over his set of them to Natl Archives
Date: 22 March 1973
By MARTIN ARNOLDSpecial to The New York Times
Dr M H Halperin, who had gen supervision of Defense Dept group that put together Pentagon papers, testifies on March 21 at Pentagon papers trial that 1 copy of papers had been sent to Rand Corp for storage and that it did not belong to US Govt; says he classified papers 'top secret-sensitive' in routine manner because everything relating to war in Vietnam had been classified 'top secret' in dept; says he considered materials including 1 set of papers, as being private papers of himself, L Gelb, who headed Pentagon papers study, and P C Warnke, then Asst Sec of Defense for Internal Security; says that 1 reason 3 men wanted information stored in special way at Rand was so that other officials in Govt would not learn of existence of papers when Govt inventories of 'top secret' documents at Rand were made; says that he and Gelb gave D Ellsberg right to have special access to papers for study he was doing on Vietnam; says word 'sensitive' was added to 'top secret' because then Sec of Defense, R S McNamara, considered documents 'bureaucratically and politically sensitive' and did not want their existence to be known 'within the executive branch as well as outside, except to those who were working on papers'; says he had made no attempt to determine whether source docuemnts on which papers were based had been properly classified, nor did he other to read various classification regulations
Date: 22 March 1973
By WALTER RUGABER
Walter RUGABER
US Dist Ct Judge Richey, acting on 1st Amendment grounds, quashes subpoenas served on reprs of 4 news orgns by Com for Re-Election of Pres which demanded that 10 reporters and news execs turn over notes and other unpublished material in Watergate case; says Nixon com lawyers made no showing that other sources of evidence 'have been exhausted or approached' and that they failed to show that material demanded of journalists is central to case; journalists' lawyers and Judge Richey note that current case, unlike most of those in which cts have ordered testimony to be given, is civil action with fewer competing needs than criminal case would have; Dem Natl Com and party leaders are demanding $3.2-million in damages from Nixon orgn and others in connection with break-in and bugging of Watergate; Repubs charge former Dem Natl Chmn L F O'Brien with libel and malicious abuse of judicial process; reporters subpoenaed include J M Crewdson (NY Times), C Bernstein, B Woodward, Mrs K Graham and H Simons (Washington Post), J O'Leary, P Collins and J Polk (Washington Star-News) and D Fisher (Time)
Date: 22 March 1973
Special to The New York Times
Greek Govt spokesman V Stamatopoulos says on Mar 21 that he has ordered explusion from Greece within 24 hrs of A Coerant, resident correspondent for Dutch and Belgian news media; alleges Coerant is 'pol instructor' who incited dissident students at Athens Univ; action comes 1 day after police stormed into Athens Univ Law School to break up sit-in by 800 students; Coerant, who is released from hospital on Mar 21 for injuries sustained during disturbances, says he left law school bldg, where he was interviewing students, 1 hr before police raid; notes he was later beaten up by police in bookstore near school
Date: 22 March 1973
NYS Newspaper Editors Soc on Mar 20 votes unanimously to oppose 2 bills currently before NYS Legis dealing with access to public meetings and govt records, annual meeting final session; charges there are too many loopholes in proposals; appts com to suggest revisions
Date: 23 March 1973
NY Times reporter L Oelsner on Mar 22 receives G Polk Memorial Award for outstanding journalistic achievement for her series of articles on criminal justice system in NYS
Date: 23 March 1973
Penna Sup Ct, in ruling made public on Mar 22, orders law enforcement officials to stop releasing criminal records of suspects to news media, prohibits officials from telling media that an accused has confessed or made any statement about crime or that he might plead guilty, bans 'inflammatory statements' by law officials on merits of case or character of accused and forbids accused to pose for pictures at or near scene of crime; new rules, outlined in A D Pierce case, follow almost verbatim standards recommended by Amer Bar Assn on pretrial publicity
Date: 23 March 1973
Date: 23 March 1973
THOS. C. SCHULLERE. D. COGANHERMAN SCHWARTZTHOMAS O'FLAHERTYISADORE CANDEUB
lr from T O'Flaherty, who recently served on NYS jury, criticizes 'waste of human resources' in jury system; proposes some measures to cut 'abuse' of jurors' time; jurors illus