Joe Biden's Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Xavier Becerra, was in the news again in recent days, after a relatively quiet time in office after his confirmation by the Senate. He was again taking up a hobby for which he was famous in his former role as Attorney General of California: bullying Catholic nuns.
In California, he spent an undue amount of time and effort hounding the Little Sisters of the Poor because of their exemption from the "HHS Mandate." In spite of having been vindicated twice by the Supreme Court — in 2016 and in 2020 — the Little Sisters still found themselves the target of Becerra's attentions. That prompted a famous exchange during Becerra's confirmation hearings, when Sen. Ben Sasse asked him bluntly, "Why did you bully nuns?"
