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Fact Checking Xavier Becerra’s Claim That He ‘Never Sued Any Nuns’
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Fact Checking Xavier Becerra’s Claim That He ‘Never Sued Any Nuns’

As California AG, he sued the Trump administration over a contraception mandate exemption, but the case had direct bearing on the Little Sisters of the Poor.
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Fact Checking Xavier Becerra’s Claim That He ‘Never Sued Any Nuns’

During his Senate confirmation hearing on Wednesday, President Joe Biden’s nominee for health and human services secretary, Xavier Becerra—the attorney general of California since 2017—claimed that he “never sued any nuns” in response to a question about litigation against the Little Sisters of the Poor.

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Alec Dent is a former culture editor and staff writer for The Dispatch.

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