It is amazing how many diversity criteria she fulfills.
- Young
- Woman
- Indian
- African
- California
- Non practicing attorney
- Not Ivy
Speculation that California Atty. Gen. Kamala D. Harris could be on President Obama’s short list of possible nominees to the U.S. Supreme Court has reached a fever pitch ...... Harris, 51, the daughter of immigrants from India and Jamaica. ...... a graduate of Howard University in Washington, D.C., and earned her law degree at UC Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco. ..... Harris has brushed aside the speculation ..... Most describe Harris as a veteran prosecutor and astute, ambitious political leader. Harris also has been a strong Obama supporter since he was a U.S. Senate candidate from Illinois. ..... Harris' national profile got a boost when Obama gave her a speaking role at the Democratic National Convention in 2012. The headlines continued in 2013 when Obama apologized publicly for having described her as "the best-looking" attorney general in the country. ..... Throughout her political career, Harris has articulated clear positions on many controversial, divisive issues that could come before the nation’s high court. ......Harris favors the protection of abortion rights, an end to the federal ban on medical marijuana and a path to citizenship for immigrants in the country illegally. She backs major changes in the criminal justice system, in part to address racial disparities, including shorter sentences for low-level drug crimes and a shift in government funding from prisons to crime prevention.
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