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Nancy and Paul Pelosi (2021)
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This case should provide Fox News and Co. with enough material for the coming broadcast days: The husband of the Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, has been temporarily arrested for drunk driving.
Paul Pelosi was stopped intoxicated by the police on Sunday night in the state of California, several US media reported on Sunday (local time).
This also emerges from a listing of the local police in Napa County on recent arrests.
The 82-year-old was arrested shortly before midnight and released a few hours later on $5,000 bail.
The couple owns a winery in Napa.
The news site "The Hill" quoted a spokesman for Nancy Pelosi (82) as saying that the Democrat did not comment on the "private matter".
She was not in California at the time, but on the US East Coast.
Nancy and Paul Pelosi have been married for almost 60 years.
The two have five children together.
Paul Pelosi is a wealthy businessman.
Nancy Pelosi, on the other hand, is considered one of the most powerful politicians in the country: As Chair of the House of Representatives, she is currently number three in the state, after US President Joe Biden and his deputy Kamala Harris.
Politician barred from communion
Pelosi recently made headlines after the Archbishop of San Francisco barred the Democrat leader from Holy Communion.
In a letter to the President of the US House of Representatives, Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone justified the exclusion with her support for the right to abortion.
This is contrary to Christian teaching.
Cordileone therefore forbids the 82-year-old practicing Catholic from taking communion in his archdiocese.
Should Pelosi appear anyway, the priest must not let her participate.
Pelosi, whose constituency is in San Francisco, like most politicians in President Joe Biden's Democratic Party, advocates for women's right to abortion.
This right is currently in danger in the USA: In the coming weeks, the country's Supreme Court could pass the almost 50-year-old landmark decision »Roe v.
Wade, which enshrined a constitutional right to abortion in 1973.
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