Kamala Devi Harris ( , KAH -m? -l? was born October 20, 1964) is an American lawyer and politician who served as United States junior senator from California since 2017. A Democrat, he previously served as California's 33rd General Attorney from 2011 to 2017.
Harris graduated from Howard University and UC Hastings. After working at the San Francisco District Prosecutor's Office and the Harris City Prosecutor's Office was elected as San Francisco District Attorney. Harris was elected as California Attorney General in 2010 and re-elected in 2014. On November 8, 2016, he defeated Loretta Sanchez in the 2016 Senate election to replace the outgoing Senator Barbara Boxer, becoming the third US Senator from California and the first of Jamaica's descendants or India. During his tenure, he generally opposed President Donald Trump's policies.
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Early life and education
Harris was born on October 20, 1964 in Oakland, California to a Tamil Indian mother, Shyamala Gopalan Harris (1938-2009), and a Jamaican father, Donald Harris. His mother was a breast cancer researcher, who emigrated from Chennai (then Madras), Tamil Nadu, India, in 1960, and his father an economics professor at Stanford University, who emigrated from Jamaica in 1961 for graduate studies in economics at the University of California , Berkeley. His name, Kamal?, Is derived from the Sanskrit word Kamala ("Lotus"), another name of Lakshmi, the goddess of Hindu prosperity, whose jock is the lotus flower. He was very close to his maternal grandfather, P. V. Gopalan, an Indian diplomat, and as a child he often visited his family at Besant Nagar, in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. She has a younger sister, Maya.
The family lives in Berkeley, California, where both Harris parents attend graduate school. Harris's parents divorced when she was 7 years old and her mother was given custody of the children by court settlement. After the divorce, her mother moved with the children to Montreal, QuÃÆ' Â © bec, Canada, where Shyamala took a position doing research at Jewish General Hospital and taught at McGill University.
After graduating from Westmount High School Montreal in Quebec, Harris studied at Howard University in Washington, D.C., where he majored in political science and economics. At Howard, Harris was elected as a council member of the liberal arts college as a representative of a new class, a debating team member, and joined Alpha Alpha Alpha Kappa.
Harris then returned to California, earning his Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, in 1989. Harris failed California's bar exam for the first time, then said, "this is not your capacity measure." He was accepted in the State Bar of California in 1990.
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Initial career
Harris served as deputy district attorney in Alameda County, California, from 1990 to 1998. Harris said he was seeking a career in law enforcement because he wanted to be "at the table where decisions are made." In 1993, he began dating California Speaker of the Assembly, Willie Brown, who introduced him to many powerful individuals in the formation of political and campaign management California and Sacramento. He was very active in Brown's 1995 campaign for the Mayor of San Francisco and was publicly introduced as Brown's girlfriend, even though Brown was married. Two weeks after the election, Brown broke up. After 1998, while Willie Brown is the mayor of San Francisco, he became the manager of the Career Criminal Unit at the San Francisco District Prosecutor's Office, a small unit with three staff. In 2000, San Francisco's City Attorney General Louise Renne recruited Harris to join his office, where he is head of the Community and Environment Division, which oversees civil law enforcement issues.
City and County San Francisco County Attorneys
After the Fajitagate scandal, Harris defeated two powerful incumbent Terence Hallinan, in the 2003 election to become City District Attorney and County of San Francisco.
In April 2004, San Francisco Police Department Officer Isaac Espinoza was shot and killed in his duties. Three days later D.A. Harris announces he will not seek the death penalty, angering the San Francisco Police Officer. During the funeral of Officer Espinoza at St. Mary Senator AS and former San Francisco mayor Dianne Feinstein climbed to the pulpit and asked Harris, who sat in the front seat, to secure the death penalty, prompting a standing ovation of 2,000 uniformed policemen. attendant. Harris still refuses. Killer Officer Espinoza was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison. Soon, Harris deployed veteran prosecutor Paul Cummins, assistant head of his predecessor, from the prosecution prosecutor's 80-prosecutor prosecution unit to Harris's low position at DA office. Cummins is widely regarded by the police department, further harming his relationship with Harris.
Like D.A., Harris started a program that gave drug dealers a chance to get a high school diploma and find a job. Over eight years the program produces fewer than 300 graduates, but achieves a very low recidivism rate. He was re-elected when he ran unimpeded, in 2007.
In 2009, Harris wrote: Smart Care Crime: Career Attorney's Plan to Make Us Safer, where he looks at criminal justice from an economic perspective and seeks to reduce temptation and access to criminals. This book discusses a series of "myths" around the criminal justice system, and presents proposals for reducing and preventing crime. Recognized by The Los Angeles Daily Journal as one of the top 100 lawyers in California, she works on the board of the California District Attorney Association and vice president of the National District Bar Association.
He has been outspoken about the need for innovation in public safety, particularly with regard to reducing the sickness rate in San Francisco. One such program, "Back on Track", was signed into law by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger as a model program for the country. Initially, there were problems with moving illegal immigrants from the program, such as the incident involving Alexander Izaguirre, who was later arrested for assault. The program is revised to address the issue, prohibiting anyone who can not legally be employed in the United States. Harris also protects the informant with the Nuestra Familia prison gang involved in illegal activities including drug trafficking and possession of weapons.
Crime, criminals, detention, and harsh belief
While Harris is the San Francisco District Attorney, the overall crime confidence rate increased from 52% in 2003 to 67% in 2006, the highest in a decade; there is an 85% confidence level for murder, and belief in drug traffickers increased from 56% in 2003 to 74% in 2006. While these statistics represent only experimental beliefs, he also closes many cases through bargaining pleas. When he was in office, he took special interest in cleaning up part of the murder case of the previous government. Harris claims that the record is less than optimal from previous governments, and works to gain confidence in what he can. That means that out of 73 unsuccessful killing cases, 32 cases took the deal for lower allegations such as ordinary murder or accepting demands for other crimes such as assault or robbery while the murder charge was dismissed.
However, critics argue that San Francisco is sending fewer people to jail per capture than any other state in the state. The incarceration rate in San Francisco DA is among the lowest in the entire state of California - ten times lower than in San Diego County, for example. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, about 4 of every 100 arrests resulted in jail terms in San Francisco, compared with 12.8 out of 100 in Alameda County, 14.4 out of 100 in Sacramento County, 21 out of 100 in San Mateo and Santa Clara districts, 26.6 out of 100 in Fresno County, 38.7 out of 100 in Los Angeles County and 41 from 100 in San Diego County. "Police also noted that light sentences from San Francisco judges also played a role in this.
While officers in the SFPD praised Harris by tightening the gaps in the drug and drug programs that had been exploited by defendants in the past, they also accused him of being too cautious in prosecuting the murder suspect. In addition, in 2009, San Francisco prosecutors won a lower percentage of their jury trial than their counterparts in the district attorney's office covering 10 of California's largest cities, according to case-case data collected by officials at the San Francisco High Court as well as by other district courts and prosecutors. (Officials in Sacramento, California's sixth-largest city, do not provide data.) The degree of conviction of Harris's criminal court punishment that year was 76%, down 12 points from a year earlier. In contrast, the statewide average last recorded was 83%, according to statistics from the California Judicial Council. In a small sample, a report calculated that the confidence level for crime trials in San Francisco County in the first three months of 2010 was only 53%. San Francisco has historically had one of the lowest confidence levels in the state; The county is known for the jury of the accused-friendly.
In 2012, High Court Judge Anne-Christine Massullo ruled that the San Francisco District Prosecutor's Office violated the defendant's rights by hiding damaging information about police crime lab technicians, and indifferent to the claim that it was responsible for her failure.
Hate crime and civil rights
Harris created the Special Hate Crime Unit as San Francisco District Attorney. He focuses on hate crimes against LGBT children and adolescents in schools. He held a national conference to confront the "gay-transgender panic defense", which has been used to justify hate crime with violence. Harris supports same-sex marriage in California and opposes both Proposition 22 and Proposition 8.
In 2004, the National Urban League honored Harris as a "Woman of Power", and he received the Thurgood Marshall Award from the National Black Prosecutors Association in 2005. In his campaign for the California Attorney General, he received support from many groups, including EMILY's List, California Legislative Black Caucus, Asian American Action Fund, Black Woman Organized for Political Action, National Women's Political Caucus, American Bar Association of Mexico, and South Asia for Opportunities.
California Attorney General
2010 elections
On 12 November 2008, Harris announced his candidacy for the California Attorney General. Both California United States Senators, Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer, as well as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, supported Harris during the Democratic primary. In the main section, he faces Chris Kelly, former Chief Privacy Officer of Facebook; Assemblyman Alberto Torrico; MP and former military prosecutor Ted Lieu; Assemblyman Pedro Nava; Rocky Delgadillo, former Los Angeles City Attorney; and Mike Schmier. On June 8, 2010, the primary, he was nominated with 33.6% of the vote. Its closest competitors, Torrico and Kelly, each have 15.6% and 15.5% respectively.
In his campaign for the California Attorney General, Harris received support from founder of the Agricultural Workers Union Dolores Huerta, San Francisco San Francisco Educator, and San Francisco Fire Department, 798. He also received support from Antonio Villaraigosa, the Mayor of Los Angeles. In an election he faces Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley. On the eve of the election, November 2, 2010, Cooley prematurely declared victory, but many ballots remain unaccounted. On November 24, when the tally took place, Harris led more than 55,000 votes, and Cooley admitted. On January 3, 2011, Harris became the first female prosecutor, Jamaica, United States and American Indians in California.
In 2012, he sent a letter to 100 mobile app developers who asked them to comply with California laws regarding privacy issues. If any app developer that can be used by California does not display a privacy policy statement when the application is installed, California law is broken, with a possible $ 2500 for each download. The law affects any developer in the world if the app is used by California.
At the Democratic National Convention 2012, Harris gave a prime-time speech that attacked Mitt Romney. During the second Obama administration, Harris was mentioned as a possible candidate to sit in the US Supreme Court if the seat in the court was vacant. In February 2016, The New York Times identified him as a potential US Supreme Court candidate to replace Judge Antonin Scalia.
2014 elections
Harris announced his intention to run again in February 2014, and filed a document to run on 12 February. According to the offices of California Secretary of State Debra Bowen, Harris has raised money for his campaign over the previous year in 2013. On August 13, 2014, Harris announced the legalization of Betty Yee for the California State Controller, calling him one of "the most knowledgeable and responsible money managers "in the state, and says he is proud to support him. Yee, in return, sings Harris's praises and calls him "the extraordinary elected leader." Harris also supports Bonnie Dumanis and Sandra Fluke. Harris himself is supported by The Sacramento Bee, Los Angeles Daily News and The Los Angeles Times.
On November 4, 2014, Harris was re-elected against Republican Ronald Gold.
In September 2014, when US Attorney General Eric Holder announced his intention to resign, Harris speculated as a potential candidate as the next US Attorney General. Harris discussed speculation in a statement, days after Holder's resignation, denied the intention to take office and insisted he remained in his position as California Attorney General. Two months later, in November 2014, President Barack Obama nominated Loretta Lynch to replace the Holder. On November 10, Harris issued a statement about a nomination that approved Obama's decision, praised Lynch, and reiterated his choice to keep working with the California Justice Department.
Mastery as California Attorney General
Housing
When Harris took over the office, California still has not recovered from the impact of the subprime mortgage crisis. Harris participated in the National KPR Settlement of five banks: Ally Financial, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Citibank, and Chase. He initially left the talk because he believed the deal was too lax. He later rejoined the talks, securing $ 12 billion debt reduction for the country's homeowners and $ 26 billion overall. Another part of the funding will go to state housing counseling services and legal aid to homeowners who are fighting and forgiving debts of more than 23,000 homeowners who agree to sell their homes for less than a mortgage loan.
Later, he introduced the Bill of Rights of California Home Owners in the California State Legislature, package several bills that would give homeowners more "options when fighting to defend their homes". The bill, which came into force on 1 January 2013, prohibits the practice of "double tracking" (processing modifications and foreclosures at the same time) and robot signing, and provides homeowners with a single point of contact in their lending institution. It also gives the California Attorney General more power to investigate and prosecute financial fraud and to hold a special grand jury to prosecute multi-county crimes than to prosecute one county-by-county crime. The Sacramento Bee reported in one of the first cases of homeowners who used bills to stop Bank of America from confiscating her home.
Prison conditions and penal reform
After the United States Supreme Court at Brown v. Plata says California's jail is so overcrowded that they overturn cruel and unusual punishment, Harris fights federal court oversight, explains "I have a client, and I do not choose my clients. "After California failed to fully execute a court order to reduce the crowd, and was ordered to implement a new parole program, Harris attorney appealed on the grounds that if forced to release this prisoner early, the prison would lose important labor resources.
Harris refuses to take any position on criminal penal reform initiatives, Proposition 36 (2012) and Proposition 47 (2014), for that reason is not appropriate because his office prepares ballot books. Former California Attorney General John Van de Kamp considers his explanation "nonsense."
Daniel Larsen case
On August 24, 2012, the Los Angeles Times published an editorial calling on Harris to release Daniel Larsen from prison. Larsen, who was sentenced to 28 years to live under California's three law strikes for possessing a hidden weapon in 1999, was declared "completely innocent" by federal judges in 2009 and ordered to be released. The evidence supporting Larsen includes the former police chief and the real owner of the knife; Larsen's original lawyer, who failed to summon a witness, has since been dismissed. Larsen remained in jail because Harris's office objected to his release on the grounds that he missed a deadline to file a habeas corpus warrant. The California Innocence Project, which has taken on the Larsen case, says it's as big as a technical document. The Editorial Times states that if Harris does not release Larsen, Governor Jerry Brown should forgive him. In March 2013, Larsen was released with a bond with a case in appeal by order of Attorney General Harris "on a technical basis". In September 2013, the US Ninth Circuit Appeals Court reaffirmed the decision, and on January 27, 2014, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office dismissed the allegations.
Michelle-Lael Norsworthy Case
In February 2014, Michelle-Lael Norsworthy, a transgender woman imprisoned in California State Prison Mule Creek, filed a federal suit based on the country's failure to provide what she considered to be a medically needed sex change operation (SRS). In April 2015, a federal judge ordered the California Department of Repair and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to provide Norsworthy with the SRS, finding that the prison officer had "deliberately not concerned with his serious medical needs." Attorney General California Harris, representing the CDCR, challenged the order in Circuit Court of Appeals 9. Harris argued that "Norsworthy has received hormone therapy for his sex dysphoria since 2000, and continues to receive hormone therapy and other forms of treatment" and that "none proof that Norsworthy is in serious physical or emotional danger and soon. "
In August 2015, while the country's appeal was delayed, Norsworthy was released on parole, eliminating state duty to provide medical care to inmates. AG Harris stated that the process of examining parole does not depend on Norsworthy's legal case against the CDCR. The appeals court, though, was not convinced. "Before the Norsworthy filed this lawsuit," the court commented, "the parole panel on several previous occasions denied his parole...... Four months after Norsworthy filed this lawsuit in February 2014, however, the parole board decided to advance a parole dated the next... [On May 21] Norsworthy finally had a parole hearing, at that point the parole panel approved his submission. "The court concluded that" this coincidence shows that there are at least some possibilities that the defendant influenced the parole process. "
Financial crime
Harris has tried various financial crimes, such as predatory lending. In 2011 while serving as California Attorney General, he created the Mortgage Fraud Strike Force which has a mandate to eliminate mortgage foreclosure scams. The task force has been criticized for not filing many foreclosure cases as in countries with smaller populations.
In 2013, Harris did not prosecute the Steve Mnuchin OneWest bank despite evidence "suggestive of a widespread error" according to a leaked memo from the Department of Justice. In 2017, Harris said that his office's decision not to prosecute Mnuchin was based on "following facts and evidence... like any other case." In 2016, Mnuchin donated $ 2,000 to Harris's campaign, making it the only Democratic Senate 2016 candidate to earn money from Mnuchin, but as a senator, Harris voted against Mnuchin's confirmation as Minister of Finance. As a result of the donations, he has faced criticism for not suing Mnuchin and OneWest Bank when he became Attorney General.
Behavior of district attorney's error
In 2015, Harris defended the beliefs gained by district attorneys who have included false confessions into transcripts of interrogation, false swearing, and withholding evidence. Federal federal appeals court judge Alex Kozinski dismissed the verdict, telling Harris's lawyer, "Talk to the attorney general and make sure he understands the gravity of the situation."
In March 2015, California high court judges ordered Harris to take over the criminal case after Orange County Attorney General Tony Rackauckas was relegated to illegally hire a prison informant and hide evidence. Harris refuses, asks for orders and defends Rackauckas.
Harris appealed for the dismissal of the indictment when a Kern County prosecutor found false swear in filing a false confession as court evidence. Harris affirmed that the prosecutorial false oath is insufficient to indicate prosecutorial behavior. In that case, Harris argued that only physical brutality would guarantee the finding of the prosecutor's offense and the dismissal of the indictment, and that false oaths were not enough.
The Justice Bureau of Children
On February 12, 2015, Harris announced that he would start a new agency called the Justice Bureau of Children. The Bureau will work on issues such as foster care, juvenile justice systems, school truancy, and childhood trauma. Harris appointed special assistant prosecutor Jill Habig to head the agency.
Mitrice Richardson Cases
In February 2016 it was revealed that the Attorney General would open a criminal investigation to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department that handled the case of Mitrice Richardson. Harris's decision came after his initial refusal to investigate the case resulted in public outrage and the Richardson family and its supporters sent more than 500 pages of evidence. Mitrice Richardson is a 24-year-old African American woman who was released from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department at midnight without the means to defend herself. His body was later found in an isolated canyon, leaving the family with many unanswered questions. On December 30, 2016, the results of a criminal investigation into the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department handling the Richardson case concluded that there was insufficient evidence to support criminal prosecution of anyone involved in handling the case.
Backyard case
On October 6, 2016, Harris announced the arrest of Backpage's CEO, Carl Ferrer, for allegedly a pimp's crime pimp, a pimp, and a conspiracy to pimp. An arrest warrant alleges that 99% of Backpage's income is directly attributed to prostitution-related advertising, many of which involve sex trafficking victims, including children under the age of 18.
On December 9, 2016, a high court judge dismissed all allegations in the complaint. On December 23, 2016, Harris filed new charges against Ferrer and former Backpage owners Mike Lacey and Jim Larkin for pimps and money laundering. In January 2017, Backpage announced that it was removing vulgar parts of all its sites in the United States for years of extradegal harassment and tactics.
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2016 election
After US Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer announces that she intends to retire from the United States Senate at the end of her term in 2016, after which she will become California's junior senator for 24 years, Harris is the first candidate to declare his intention to Run for the Senate Boxer seat. The media reported that Harris would run for Senate on the same day Gavin Newsom, California Lieutenant Governor and Harris's close ally, announced he would not attempt to succeed Boxer. He officially announced the launch of his campaign on January 13, 2015.
After holding a number of fundraisers in California and Washington, D.C., Harris has reportedly raised $ 2.5 million for his campaign. In December, the National Journal released a story depicting Harris's use of funds at hotels, the laying of campaign staff and an excessive total, which has contributed to his money in hand being closer to another candidate, Loretta Sanchez, which has $ 1.6 million.
Harris was a pioneer from the start of his campaign. In January 2015, a few weeks after Harris announced his campaign, a survey by Public Polling Policy showed Harris leading by 41% to former 16% former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who was seen as a potential candidate. In May, Field Poll was released, suggesting that although 58% of potential voters did not have a favored candidate, Harris was most favorably off the field, with 19%. October saw Field Field release with Harris at 30%, fellow Democratic candidate Loretta Sanchez in second place at 17%, which had previously increased its support by 11% since Field Polling in May despite being recorded by The Sacramento Bee has not been active in the campaign since it appeared at the California Democratic Party convention.
At the end of February 2016, the California Democrat Party voted at a state convention to support Harris, who received 78% of the vote, 18% more than 60% needed to secure the endorsement. The party's endorsement does not guarantee any candidate in the general election, as all candidates will participate in a major vote in June with the top 2 candidates from any party going to the general election. Harris participated in a debate with another major candidate for the seat, his front-runner status put him at the center of the discussion. Governor Jerry Brown supports Harris on May 23. Harris was first on the first day, June 7, with 40% of the vote, going into overflow with fellow Democratic candidate Loretta Sanchez. On July 19, President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden supported Harris.
In the June 2016 primary election, with detailed results at district level, Harris won 48 out of 58 districts. Harris won seven counties with over 50% of the votes: Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Cruz, and Sonoma. The highest percentage is San Francisco, with 70.4% of the vote. He faces Congressman Loretta Sanchez, also a Democrat, in an election. This assures that the chair will remain in the hands of the Democrats; this is the first time a Republican has not appeared in elections to the Senate since California began directly selecting the Senator in 1914.
In the November 2016 election, Harris defeated Sanchez with 62 percent of the vote, bringing all but four counties. After his victory, Harris promised to protect immigrants from the policy of President-elect Donald Trump.
After his election to the United States Senate, Harris announced his intention to remain California Attorney General until the end of 2016 and resigned shortly before being sworn in as Senator on 3 January 2017. Governor Jerry Brown announced his intention to nominate Congressman Xavier Becerra as his successor.
Tenure
On January 21, 2017, the day after President Trump was sworn into office, Harris called the message of a "darkened" Trump inaugural speech while speaking during the Women's Parade in Washington. On January 28, after Trump signed the Protecting the Nation from a Foreign Terrorist Entry into the executive order of the United States, which saw the inhabitants of the terror states barred from entering the US for 90 days, Harris called it a "Muslim ban". In early February, Harris spoke out against the Trump cabinet choosing Betsy DeVos, for the Secretary of Education, and Jeff Sessions, for the US Attorney General. Later that month, in his first speech on the senate floor, Harris spent 12 minutes criticizing Trump's immigration policy. In early March, Harris asked the Prosecutor General's Office to resign, after it was reported that the Session spoke twice with the Russian Ambassador to Sergey Kislyak of the United States. On March 14, Harris claimed canceling the Affordable Care Act would send health care messages a "privilege" rather than a "civil right".
In a May 2017 interview, Harris criticized Republican representative Raul Labrador for saying that no one died of lack of access to health care.
On June 7, 2017, Harris garnered media attention for his question about Rod Rosenstein, Deputy Attorney General, for the role he played in the James Comey rebellion in May 2017, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The demands of the question led Senator John McCain, a member of the intelligence committee, and Senator Richard Burr, chairman of the committee, to harass Harris and request that he respect the witness more; Other Democrats on the committee indicated that they had asked the same difficult questions, but were not disturbed. On June 13, Harris questioned Jeff Sessions, the Attorney General, on the same topic; Harris was again distracted by McCain and Burr. The sessions claimed that Harris's way of asking made me nervous. "Another Democratic member of the committee once again pointed out that Harris was the only senator whose interrogation was interrupted by a reprimand from the chairman Burr's singling out of Harris sparked suggestions in the news media that his behavior was sexist, with commentators stating that Burr will not treat a male senate in the same way.The True Pundit website suggests that treating Harris differently than any other member of the Intelligence Committee is evidence of racism.In addition, when CNN the intellectual Jason Miller describes Harris as "hysterical", Kirsten Powers, who took part in the same on-air segment, told Miller that the use of the term to describe Harris is sexist, and that he would not portray the male Senator in a way that same.
Kamala Harris was crowned as part of "Hell-No Caucus" by Politico in 2018, along with Cory Booker Senators, Kirsten Gillibrand, Elizabeth Warren, and Bernie Sanders, recalling he chose "greatly thwarted him [Trump ] nominees for administrative work ", as with Rex Tillerson, Betsy De Vos, and Mike Pompeo; all considered potential presidential candidates by 2020 at this time.
Committees assignment
- Committee on Budget
- Domestic Security and Government Affairs Committee
- Subcommittee on Federal Emergency Spending and Management Supervision
- Subcommittee on Federal Regulatory and Management Affairs
- Select the Intelligence Committee
- Judicial Committee
- Subcommittee on the Constitution
- Subcommittee on Monitoring, Agent Action, Federal Rights, and Federal Court
- Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and Law
Source: Los Angeles Times
caucus membership
- Congressional Black Caucus
- Caucus Congress of Asia Pacific America
- Caucus Congress for Women's Issues
Political position
Abortion
Prior to joining the US Senate, Harris had a 100% ranking of the NARAL pro-choice group. In 2016, after altering the hidden camera video that was released accusing Planned Parenthood healthcare providers of illegally selling fetal networks, Harris authorized the Justice Department to seize the laptop, ID card, and other property of anti-abortion activist David Daleiden.
Death penalty
Harris opposes the death penalty, but says that he will review each case individually. His position was tested in April 2004, when SFPD Officer Isaac Espinoza was killed in the Bayview district. Harris announced that he would not seek the death penalty for the man accused of murder. The decision led to protests from the San Francisco Police Officers Association, Senator Dianne Feinstein, and others. Those who supported his decision not to seek the death penalty included San Francisco Superintendent Tom Ammiano and Sophie Maxwell, in the district where the murder took place. The jury finds a convicted murderer, David Hill, guilty of second-degree murder, though prosecutor Harry Dorfman has sought a first-degree assurance of murder. The defense argues that Hill considers Espinoza to be a member of a rival gang, and that the murder is not planned. Hill was given the maximum penalty for confidence, life without the possibility of parole.
Harris's position on the death penalty was tested again in the case of Edwin Ramos, an illegal immigrant and alleged member of the MS-13 alley that was accused of killing Tony Bologna and his son Michael and Matthew. On September 10, 2009, Harris announced he would seek life in prison without the possibility of parole rather than a death sentence in the case of Ramos.
Harris has expressed confidence that life without the possibility of parole is a better punishment, and more cost-effective. According to the California Commission on Fair Justice Administration, the death penalty costs $ 137 million annually. If the system is changed to life without the possibility of parole, the annual fee will be about $ 12 million per year. Harris noted that the resulting surplus could place 1,000 more police officers into service in San Francisco alone.
When in 2014, US District Judge Cormac J. Carney declared the death sentence in California unconstitutional, Harris reviewed the case.
Education
In an interview with Matt Lauer on The Today Show and local KGO-TV, Harris argued for treating "chronic habit and truancy" among children in elementary school as a crime perpetrated by children's parents who ditch. He argues that there is a direct connection between trashing habit in primary school and future crime. He has received support from the California Teachers Federation.
Environment
During his tenure as San Francisco District Attorney, Harris created the Environmental Justice Unit at the San Francisco District Prosecutor's Office and tried several industries and individuals for pollution, especially U-Haul, Alameda Publishing Corporation, and Cosco Busan oil spill. He also advocates for enforcement of strong environmental protection laws.
The law of weapons
Harris has an F ranking from the National Rifle Association for his consistent efforts in supporting weapons control. While serving as a district attorney in San Francisco, Harris, along with other district attorneys, filed a brief report in the District of Columbia v. Heller, on the grounds that Washington, DC, the arms laws in question do not violate the Second Amendment. In his second term as district attorney, he said that releasing weapons from the streets was a priority.
During the run of the Senate, he was supported by former US Representative Gabrielle Giffords, shot in Tucson in 2011. She is also supported by Brady Campaign to Prevent Pistol Violence.
In response to Las Vegas 2017 shooting, Harris supports calls for further weapon control. Believing that thoughts and prayers are inadequate answers to shootings, he states that "... we must also commit to action." Another moment of silence will not be enough.
Health care
On August 30, 2017, Harris announced at the town hall in Oakland that he would sponsor alongside Senator Bernie Sanders "Medicare for All" bill, supporting a single payer health care.
Immigration
Harris has expressed his support for San Francisco's immigration policy not to ask about immigration status in criminal investigation. Harris argues that it is important for immigrants to be able to talk to law enforcement without fear.
On October 25, 2017, during a press conference, Harris stated that he would not support the spending bill until Congress discusses the Pending program for Arrival Children in a way that explains "what will we do to protect and care for our DACA young people in this country. "
In a January 2018 interview, when asked by Hiram Soto about the ideal version of the bipartisan agreement on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, Harris stated the need to focus on comprehensive immigration reforms and "pass the Clean Dream Law."
Foreign policy
In a statement on April 6, 2017, in response to Khan Shaykhun's chemical attack, Harris accused Syrian President Bashar al-Assad of attacking Syrian children and the attack supported "the clear fact that President Assad is not only a cruel dictator who tortures himself. - he is a war criminal that the international community can not ignore. "He asked President Trump to interact with Congress about" the lack of clear government objectives in Syria and to articulate a detailed strategy and move forward in partnership with our allies. "
In February 2018, Harris was one of seventeen senators to sign a letter against President Trump who has the legal authority to launch a preemptive attack against North Korea.
On May 8, 2018, after President Trump announced the United States withdrew from the Comprehensive Action Plan of the Combined, Harris released a statement saying the decision "jeopardizes our national security and isolates us from our closest allies" while calling the Comprehensive Plan of Combined Action " which exists today to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons and avoid destructive military conflicts in the Middle East. "
Personal life
When he became Deputy District Attorney Alameda in the 1990s, he dated Willie Brown, then chair of the California State Assembly. They broke up shortly after he was elected Mayor of San Francisco.
On April 7, 2014, Harris announced that he was engaged to marry California lawyer Douglas Emhoff, a responsible partner in the Los Angeles Venable LLP office. They were married on August 22, 2014, in Santa Barbara, California. Harris's sister is Maya Harris, MSNBC's political analyst, and her brother-in-law is Tony West, Uber's General Advisor and a former senior official of the US Department of Justice. Harris has one nephew, and two stepchildren, one in college and one in high school.
See also
- List of politicians of Indian descent # United States
- List of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders of America in the United States Congress
- Member List of United States-United States Senators
- List of women general prosecutors in the United States
- Women in the United States Senate
References
External links
- Kamala Harris official US Senate website
- Campaign website
- Kamala Harris on Curlie (based on DMOZ)
- Biography at Directory of Congressional Biographies of the United States
- Profile in Project Vote Smart
- Financial information (federal office) at the Federal Electoral Commission
- Rules are sponsored in the Library of Congress
- Works by or about Kamala D. Harris in the library (WorldCat catalog)
- Appearance in C-SPAN
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