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Originally Posted by adav8s28
I would bet you that most voters did not know about the above jobs you say Brown appointed Harris to. Most voters did know that K. Harris was a District Attorney, State Attorney General and a two time Senator. You don't get to be district Attorney or Attorney General unless you are a lawyer. You can't practice law until you complete law school and PASS the state Bar Exam. Willie Brown had nothing to do with that.   |
do most voters know she was rather controversial as AG? did you know? probably not. you see this cunt as some breakthrough "woman of color" who succeeds in "racist" America when the facts say otherwise.
she blew her way into politics and then acted more like some stereotypical "1950's redneck Democrat" than some "progressive" you seem to think she is
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From district attorney to the attorney general
One of her many controversies as her role as San Francisco’s District Attorney in 2004 was when an undercover police officer was killed by a twenty-one-year-old. Harris had promised never to impose capital punishment under her tenure, but the police chief and other Democratic senators had called to impose that rule immediately. She defied her party and colleagues but this does not mean that she was against the death penalty in her professional career. In her personal opinion, she
claimed to be opposed to the death penalty but continued to seek capital punishment in federal cases.
The next controversial law that she passed during her time as Attorney General of California was adopting harsher punishments for the truancy law. Her campaign to bring a harsher version of truancy meant that if a child misses school consistently several times without a valid excuse, the parent or guardian of the child will be fined $2,500 or one year in jail. Harris’s war on truancy came with a lot of criticism. In 2013,
Cheree Peoples was arrested and handcuffed for her daughter’s school attendance record. Her daughter was missing school because of sickle cell anemia which is a serious genetic illness that needs constant hospitalization.
The reason for criminalizing truancy
Harris’s truancy was harsh, and it targeted innocent people like Peoples to be criminalized based on a sick child’s attendance record. Harris believed that keeping parents and guardians in check or letting them face the consequences of the law. By criminalizing truancy laws in the state, it would mean that fewer children would become criminals or join gangs when they grow up. The program offered mentors and counseling sessions to both parents and children to teach them how to take care of them. Peoples was one of the six parents that were arrested that day for truancy.
The Larsen case
Daniel Larsen was an innocent man that was sentenced to twenty-seven years to life under the three-strikes law. He was wrongfully targeted by the police for pulling a six-inch-long knife from his waistband and throwing it under a car. Previously, he had been convicted of burglary, which meant that he would have a much harsher sentence. Witnesses had reported that it was not Larsen that had thrown the knife, but somebody else, but that was not taken into account.
It took almost eleven years for a judge to reverse Larsen’s convictions on the grounds of lack of evidence and incompetence of his attorney. During that time, almost 90,000 people had petitioned to release him from jail, and civil rights activists had called Harris to make the right decision.
When Larsen was finally released, Harris challenged his release. This meant that he would have to return to court and fight to keep himself out of prison for a crime that he did not commit.
Harris’s war against sex workers
In 2015, Harris worked to block a court ruling in favor of gender reassignment surgery for a transgender inmate, Michelle-Lael Norsworthy. Harris was the Attorney General at the time. She argued that there was no immediate urgency to carry out the surgery. But Harris did not win this fight. Norsworthy won the court ruling and was granted the request for surgery. She became the first incarcerated transgender women in the U.S. to win a court ruling of that manner. This was a historic win. Gender reassignment surgeries are denied by prison officials, which includes hormone therapy, gender-affirming clothing, cosmetics, and speech therapy. There have been other cases where transgender women are mistreated in prisons.
When asked about this case last year, Harris was oblivious to Norsworthy’s case. She did not talk about the case directly. In her defense, she was not adequately consulted about the case, and her team wished that the situation would have ended a different way. She continued to defend herself by claiming that she worked behind the scenes to reverse the court ruling against the reassignment surgery. The action that led Harris to block the surgery would harm her reputation as she has claimed to be a champion of the LGBTQ+ community.
