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THE BUZZ HEAT’S ON XAVIER: Xavier Becerra’s record as California’s top cop is under intense scrutiny this week, as Republicans intensify their drive to squelch his nomination to be the Biden administration’s Health and Human Services Secretary.
What’s driving the move: Republicans who had a role in successfully tabling the nomination of Neera Tanden to head the Office of Management and Budget have turned to Becerrra as the next big target. And on Wednesday, the Senate Finance Committee split evenly along party lines on whether to advance Becerra’s nomination to the full Senate floor, requiring the intervention of the Senate majority leader and underscoring the California AG’s precarious position, as POLITICO’s Alice Miranda Ollstein reported. ....

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Newsom's candidates for state AG critical of death penalty


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A death row inmate is escorted back to his East Block cell after spending time in the yard at San Quentin State Prison. (Gary Coronado/Los Angeles Times/TNS)
Newsom’s candidates for state AG critical of death penalty
LOS ANGELES Two years after Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered a moratorium on executions in California, he is preparing to appoint a state attorney general from a field of potential candidates that includes some of the state’s leading critics of the death penalty.
With current Attorney General Xavier Becerra up for Senate confirmation as President Biden’s secretary of Health and Human Services, criminal justice reform activists have recommended for the job candidates including a district attorney who has stopped seeking the death penalty in murder cases and elected officials who have backed unsuccessful ballot measures to repeal capital punishment. ....

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Newsom likely to pick death penalty opponent for new AG


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Two years after Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered a moratorium on executions in California, he is preparing to appoint a state attorney general from a field of potential candidates that includes some of the state’s leading critics of the death penalty.
With current Atty. Gen. Xavier Becerra up for Senate confirmation as President Biden’s secretary of Health and Human Services, criminal justice reform activists have recommended for the job candidates including a district attorney who has stopped seeking the death penalty in murder cases and elected officials who have backed unsuccessful ballot measures to repeal capital punishment.
“I’m certain the governor will be looking for an attorney general who shares his opposition to the death penalty,” said Cristine Soto DeBerry, executive director of Prosecutors Alliance of California, a group that opposes capital punishment. “I would hope that we would have an attorney general that’s seeking to move us t ....

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