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LOS ANGELES California is getting its first Latino U.S. senator. For Gov. Gavin Newsom, it’s a political gamble.
The Democratic governor Tuesday named Secretary of State Alex Padilla, the son of Mexican immigrants, to fill the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. When Padilla goes to Washington, the former state legislator will become California’s first Latino senator since the state’s founding 170 years ago.
In picking a personal friend and fellow Democrat, Newsom had his eye on history and pragmatism he turned to someone he could trust with a year of uncertainty looming, including a possible recall election targeting the governor while the pandemic rages unabated.
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Court refuses to bar woman s murder prosecution for death of fetus, a loss for Becerra
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California Attorney General Xavier Becerra’s challenge to criminal charges filed by a local district attorney was turned aside by the state Supreme Court.Gary Coronado / TNS
The state Supreme Court cleared the way Wednesday for the murder prosecution of a drug-using woman whose fetus was stillborn, rejecting a rare challenge by Attorney General Xavier Becerra to criminal charges filed by a local district attorney.
Becerra’s office normally represents county prosecutors when their cases are appealed to higher courts. But the attorney general, President-elect Joe Biden’s choice to head the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is also a supporter of reproductive rights, which are potentially at issue in the case from Kings County.
San Francisco mayor blasts California Governor Gavin Newsom for not picking a black woman to take Kamala Harris Senate seat
Governor Gavin Newsom named Secretary of State Alex Padilla, the son of Mexican immigrants, to fill Kamala Harris U.S. Senate seat
London Breed, herself an African-American woman, disagreed with the pick
Rep. Karen Bass also believed an African-American woman should be selected, but has since congratulated Padilla on his elevation to the Senate
Padilla will become the first Latino to represent California in Congress
Harris is currently the only African-American woman in the U.S. Senate
WASHINGTON — As President-elect Joe Biden prepares to tackle the devastating COVID-19 pandemic killing thousands of Americans a day, he has given his health team another, equally challenging task: rooting out entrenched racial inequalities in American health care.
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