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. Becerra further claimed that the lawsuit in question was filed against the federal government “because they have been trying to do things that are contrary to the law in California.”

At the hearing, Sen. John Thune posed the following question to Becerra:

“It does...