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California Attorney General Xavier Becerra speaks during an Aug. 2, 2018, media conference in Los Angeles. Becerra is President-elect Joe Biden’s pick for secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. (CNS photo/Lucy Nicholson, Reuters)
By Julie Asher • Catholic News Service • Posted December 11, 2020
WASHINGTON (CNS) As President-elect Joe Biden systematically announces his Cabinet nominees, one selection has already become a culture war flashpoint.
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, Biden’s choice to head the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, has stirred the partisan fires Biden says he hopes to quell.
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California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced Friday that the state has filed a motion to join the Department of Justice s antitrust lawsuit against Google
He is the first Democrat attorney general to openly support the litigation
The DoJ filed the suit alongside 11 Republican attorneys general in October accusing Google of illegally using its market muscle to hobble rivals
The company is being investigated for its dominance of search and advertising
Becerra did not state why California was now filing to join the suit but it came after Biden picked him as nominee for secretary of health and human services
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