California officials are once again taking a swing at President Donald Trump—this time over his plan to deploy federal “election monitors” to deep-blue districts ahead of next week’s elections. In response, the state is sending its own observers to keep watch over the process.

“They’re not going to be allowed to interfere in ways that the law prohibits,” California Attorney General Rob Bonta, a Democrat, said on Monday. “We cannot be naive. The Republican Party asked for the U.S. [Department of Justice] to come in.”

Trump’s Justice Department announced last week that it would send monitors to several jurisdictions in California and New Jersey, following a request from the California Republican Party. In California, voters are about to decide on Proposition 50, a ballot measure to enable

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