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MOST VALUABLE SENATOR-ELECT
Kamala Harris
California’s attorney general celebrated her landslide election as the
state’s new US senator by visiting the Coalition for Humane Immigrant
Rights of Los Angeles. Choking back tears as she recounted stories of
children who asked after Trump’s election whether they would be
deported, the daughter of immigrants from India and Jamaica declared,
“You’re not alone. We’ve got your back.” That’s not just rhetoric; it’s
who Harris is. “I grew up with a stroller’s-eye view of the civil-rights
movement,” says the next senator from America’s most populous state.
“Often I joke that as a child, I was surrounded by adults marching and
shouting for this thing called justice.” In the Senate, she’ll be the
one raising her voice for social and economic justice, and she will be
heard.
https://www.thenation.com/article/the-2016-progressive-honor-roll/
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Kamala Harris Fails to Explain Why She Didn’t Prosecute Steven Mnuchin’s
Bank
by David Dayen
FORMER CALIFORNIA ATTORNEY General Kamala Harris on Wednesday vaguely
acknowledged The Intercept’s report about her declining to prosecute
Steven Mnuchin’s OneWest Bank for foreclosure violations in 2013, but
offered no explanation.
“It’s a decision my office made,” she said, in response to questions
from The Hill shortly after being sworn in as California’s newest U.S.
senator.
“We went and we followed the facts and the evidence, and it’s a decision
my office made,” Harris said. “We pursued it just like any other case.
We go and we take a case wherever the facts lead us.”
Mnuchin is Donald Trump’s nominee to run the Treasury Department, and
served as CEO of OneWest from 2009 to 2015. In an internal memo
published on Tuesday by The Intercept, prosecutors at the California
attorney general’s office said they had found over a thousand violations
of foreclosure laws by his bank during that time, and predicted that
further investigation would uncover many thousands more.
full:
https://theintercept.com/2017/01/05/kamala-harris-fails-to-explain-why-she-didnt-prosecute-steven-mnuchins-bank/
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