While she is poised to be the Democrat nominee, here are 5 things about her
A Pedestrian’s View of Truancy and Black Hole Probate Laws: The Case of a California State Attorney General
When she was California’s attorney general, she was criticized for pushing hardtruancy policies, which were seen as stymies to the justice system and disproportionately affected families of color. Harris later said she regretted the “unintended consequences” that law had on families.
When she decided to run for the White House, she pushed Biden on his previous record of supporting busing, but it was the highlight of her run. Most of her bid, in fact, was riddled with campaign hiccups and minimal momentum.
In the upcoming election, Harris faces the fundamental challenge of holding together the broad coalition that Biden won in 2020. The problem: They have very different views on some issues. Aspects of her record, especially her time as a prosecutor in California, are under scrutiny. There are two people who have differing opinions about the issue in Pittsburgh.
She took years as the district attorney of San Francisco to adopt the Brady doctrine even though her staff recommended it in 2005. As state attorney general, she rejected the use of advanced DNA testing in the case of a Black man who was — and still is — on death row for a notable murder case, though she has since said she felt “awful” about that decision. She did not go after cases that involved killings by the police in San Francisco in response to the protests in Oakland after Michael Brown’s killing in Ferguson, Mo. The year after, she declined to support a bill that would have her office investigate officer-involved shootings, and she did not back statewide standards over body cameras worn by police officers.
That was one of several viral moments of Harris as she went after officials and politicians tied to the Trump administration, including former Attorney General Jeff Sessions, former White House chief of staff John Kelly, and former Attorney General William Barr.
There are laws that give the government the ability to make decisions about the male body. she asked Kavanaugh in a question pointedly about reproductive rights.
While Biden was nominated by Trump to be his running mate in 2020, she was accused of being ‘nasty’ by Trump when she questioned Kavanaugh, but she said she was capable of going after Republicans.
But things went off to a rocky start when she entered the White House. She misstepped in an interview with NBC’s Lester Holt when answering why she had not yet visited the border at the time, had turnover in her staff, and had consistently low approval ratings early into her tenure as vice president.
The attacks against Harris in particular have often come from many on the right, including Trump and his running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance. Trump advanced a birtherism conspiracy theory about Harris that falsely stated she was not qualified to run as vice president back in 2020. Another display of hyper-criticizing women’s voices is how Trump ridicules Harris when she laughs.
Jankowicz is the co-founder and CEO of the American Sunlight Project and she said harmful narratives are part of the criticism and abuse that women in public life receive.
And Jankowicz said that it’s important to call out the sexist and racist online trolling against Harris that’s only grown since Biden’s announcement on Sunday.
The world is a different place fifteen years later. The mood around her candidacy seems to be less frenzied, as she becomes the Democratic party’s newest presumptive nominee. Harris, of course, would represent even more “firsts” than Obama – if elected, she would be the first Asian American in the Oval Office, the first Black woman – heck, the first woman of any background. And while there are many people stanning for her, and all her identities represent, there seem to be just as many who learned some hard lessons from the Obama era – and aren’t willing to re-hang their “hope” posters just yet.
Just one day after President Biden threw his support behind Vice President Harris for the 2024 Democratic presidential nomination after dropping out of the race, Harris secured enough delegates to win the nomination, according to the Associated Press.
Harris will become the first woman of color to be a major party president if she gets the nod when the DNC holds a virtual roll call on Aug. 7.
Making Sense out of the Post-Obama Era: How Parents and Tweens Use Electronic Devices to Get More Sleep
People on the right learned that they could gain a lot of traction by foregrounding racist and nativist policies. They learned that they could shout “you lie” at a sitting president and face almost no consequences. They found out that spouting racist conspiracy theories didn’t cause you to be canceled, but created a path to the highest halls of power. They learned that huge swaths of people felt that something was being taken from them, and that they were willing to fight to take those things back.
For one thing, we’ve learned that the idea of a Black president ushering in an era of racial harmony was a pipe dream. Instead, as the journalist Wesley Lowery wrote in his book American Whitelash, the election of Obama “led us down a perilous path and into a decade and a half (and counting) of explicit racial thrashing.” The post-Obama era, he argues, has been characterized, in large part, by many white Americans becoming “convinced, in the aggregate, that they were the targets of antiwhite bigotry and being systematically discriminated against.”
Tweens might not be getting enough sleep due to how they use their electronic devices before bedtime. Scientists looked at nearly 9,400 11- and 12-year-olds for the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study, a long-term study of brain development and child health in the U.S. Researchers asked tweens and their parents detailed questions about how they used screens around bedtime and how well they slept. Then a follow-up was done a year later. Here’s how parents can help their kids have better quality sleep.
Bobby Carter’s Favorites from the Tiny Desk Contest: What Is Harris’ stance on Israel? Plus, takeaway from Biden’s Oval Office speech
The Tiny Desk Contest has received over 7,000 entries this year. Even though there was only one winner, there was not a shortage of talent. Some of Bobby Carter’s favorite hip-hop songs are listed below. Carter talks about how hip hop acts stepped up their submissions this year.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended his administration’s war efforts yesterday in his first address to the U.S. Congress since the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks. He urged Congress to speed up additional military aid and said that his country would do everything it could to defeat Hamas. Thousands of protesters marched outside of the Capitol as dozens of Democratic lawmakers boycotted the speech. Netanyahu is expected to meet with each of the people today and tomorrow. The Israeli prime minister’s visit comes at a crucial time in American politics, as Harris looks to strike a delicate balance on Israel ahead of the 2024 election.
President Biden spoke in the Oval Office last night to explain his decision to end his campaign for reelection. He gave an outline of his plans for the next six months. Biden did not want to quit the presidential race, but the stakes were too high. There are four things he said in his speech.
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