The Supreme Court has rejected Republicans' last-gasp bid to reverse Pennsylvania's certification of President-elect Joe Biden's victory in the electoral battleground.
As California Attorney General, Becerra sued the Trump administration over 100 times, often in defense of affordable and accessible health care. Now nominated to lead HHS, he could fix bad policy from the ground up.
But earlier this year the Trump administration decided not to buy an additional 500 million doses of the vaccine.
President Donald Trump's campaign continues to press lawsuits over Pennsylvania's election, appealing another case it lost to the state Supreme Court, this time over fewer than 2,000 ballots in a suburban Philadelphia county.
The majority-GOP state House of Representatives failed to pass a bill that would raise the minimum wage before the legislative term ended, leaving the state’s rate the same it has been since 2009.
Biden nominated Xavier Becerra and several other officials to a healthcare team tasked with overseeing the nation’s pandemic response.
“We’re doing everything we can in our power to avoid going back to where we were in March and April,” Gov. Tom Wolf said.
President-elect Joe Biden’s first request of the nation isn’t hard, but it is meaningful.
Justice Samuel Alito ordered the state's lawyers to respond by Dec. 9, a day after what is known as the safe harbor deadline. Congress cannot challenge any electors named by Dec. 8 in accordance with state law.
State Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine is concerned the number of medical personnel could start shrinking, too.
