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By Sudhin Thanwala (excerpted) – When President Donald Trump revoked protections for young immigrants known as “Dreamers,” California’s top prosecutor, Attorney General Xavier Becerra, [...]

By the Editorial Board (excerpted) — Xavier Becerra is California’s incumbent attorney general, having been appointed two years ago to fill a vacancy at the top of the state Department of [...]

By Cole Kazdin (Excerpted) — California Attorney General Xavier Becerra has never met Donald Trump in person. When the president visited California earlier this year, he bypassed the [...]

From the Editorial Board — Few positions are more important to Californians in this year’s election than the job of attorney general. In addition to being the state’s top law enforcement [...]

By Samantha Schmidt (Excerpted) – When Xavier Becerra’s father was a young man in California, restaurants barred people like him. Businesses would post signs with the words “No dogs or [...]

By James Rainey (Excerpted) – In the 60-year-old attorney general, Trump, 71, could not have drawn a more apt nemesis: The chief executive born to power and luxury squares off against the [...]

By John Diaz (Excerpted) Even before Donald Trump was sworn in as 45th president, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra served notice that he was ready to do battle to defend the state’s [...]

By Reid Wilson (Excerpted) “SACRAMENTO — President Trump entered office with ambitious plans to block immigrants from seven majority-Muslim nations, kick millions of immigrants out of the [...]

By Dino Grandoni (Excerpted) “Here we are again. On Wednesday, California filed another lawsuit against the Trump administration — this time concerning the repeal of an Obama-era rule [...]

By Amanda Marcotte  (excerpted) – California can’t save us from the Donald Trump apocalypse, but California Attorney General Xavier Becerra is determined to do whatever he can to [...]