{"id":431895,"date":"2024-07-16T05:33:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T12:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/calmatters.org\/?p=431895"},"modified":"2024-07-22T12:41:26","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T19:41:26","slug":"kamala-harris-california-background","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calmatters.org\/_es\/politics\/2024\/07\/kamala-harris-california-background\/","title":{"rendered":"Kamala Harris: lo que revelan sus a\u00f1os en California"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u00bfEst\u00e1 en camino de ser la primera presidenta dem\u00f3crata de California? Aqu\u00ed hay nueve formas en que California dio forma a Kamala Harris y Harris ha dado forma a California.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\n

Lea esta historia en Espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As President Joe Biden today bowed to the growing chorus of elected Democrats<\/a> y Democratic voters<\/a> calling for him to exit the 2024 race, everyone is taking another good hard look at kamala harris<\/a>.

“Today I want to offer my full support and endorsement for Kamala Harris to be the nominee of our party this year, ” Biden wrote in a social media post<\/a>, calling his selection of Harris to be his vice president “the best decision I’ve made.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vice presidents rarely get much attention. What attention Harris has gotten on the job hasn\u2019t been particularly positive. Counter to the reputation she cultivated early on in her career as a pragmatic politician and sharp-minded prosecutor, public opinion on Harris soured in the summer of 2021<\/a> and had mostly stayed sour. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That was in part thanks to the White House saddling her with a series of unenviable and intractable tasks<\/a>. Beyond that her role, like that of most vice presidents, has been high on profile, but low on actual responsibility. It\u2019s a job perhaps best described by fictional Veep Selina Meyer<\/a> as the political equivalent of being \u201cdeclawed, defanged, neutered, ball-gagged, and sealed in an abandoned coal mine.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nor was Harris faring much better with voters in her home state. Last year 59% of California voters in a Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies poll said they would not welcome her on the top of the ticket. <\/p>\n\n\n\t\n\t\t

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But as Harris emerged as the favored substitute for Biden, more voters seem to be warming to her. A Washington Post poll found that the vast majority of Democratic voters nationwide would be \u201csatisfied\u201d<\/a> with Harris at the top of the ticket. The same poll found her narrowly beating Trump in a head-to-head election among registered voters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today she issued a statement saying she was honored to have Biden’s endorsement and “my intention is to earn and win this nomination….We have 107 days until Election Day. Together, we will fight. And together, we will win.”

And so the nation is catching itself back up to speed on all things Harris \u2014 and that means catching up on a life of accomplishment and controversy here. More than any other vice president in generations, Kamala Harris\u2019 biography is singularly Californian. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nacida en Oakland, trasladada en autob\u00fas a la escuela en Berkeley, puesta a prueba por la despiadada pol\u00edtica municipal de San Francisco e impulsada al escenario nacional como la m\u00e1xima autoridad policial del estado y luego su primera senadora de color, el enfoque de Harris hacia la pol\u00edtica y la formulaci\u00f3n de pol\u00edticas se perfeccion\u00f3 aqu\u00ed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now that voters are reconsidering whether Harris has what it takes to be president of the United States \u2014 and as Donald Trump<\/a> y JD Vance<\/a> train their oppo-machine <\/a>upon her \u2014 we\u2019re resurrecting this look at her California years and career. Here are nine ways that California shaped Kamala Harris, and that Harris shaped California.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. A child of Berkeley<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

En un estado lleno de trasplantes, Harris es un californiano de toda la vida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She was was born in 1964 in Oakland \u2014 the hospital a little over a mile from the city hall where, more than half a century later, she would announce her short-lived 2020 bid for the presidency.  Born to immigrant parents who met while getting their PhDs and protesting for civil rights at UC Berkeley, she spent her childhood in Berkeley. Harris\u2019 father, Donald Harris, is from Jamaica and her mother, Shyamala Gopalan, is from India. The couple split when Harris was 7, and Harris and her sister Maya were raised mostly by her mother, who died in 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the first Democratic presidential debate in 2019, Harris famously skewered Joe Biden<\/a> \u2014 then her campaign rival \u2014 for his past opposition to federally mandated busing to desegregate public schools. For Harris, she said, the issue was \u201cpersonal.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Espec\u00edficamente, Harris mont\u00f3 el \u201cgallo rojo\u201d<\/a> from Berkeley\u2019s working-class flatlands to Thousand Oaks Elementary School at the base of the affluent north Berkeley hills. This was 1969, just one year after Berkeley Unified introducido<\/a> su programa de transporte \u201cbidireccional\u201d en todas sus escuelas primarias. Siendo Berkeley Berkeley, a diferencia de los planes de integraci\u00f3n local en todo el pa\u00eds, la ciudad lo hab\u00eda emprendido por su propia voluntad. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the debate dust-up, Harris clarified that she does not support federally mandated busing<\/a>, a policy stance not so dissimilar from the one she needled Biden over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Atravesando de un lado a otro entre diferentes estratos de la sociedad: negros, blancos y asi\u00e1ticos; acomodados y de clase trabajadora, es un tropo familiar en la biograf\u00eda de Harris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNo era una vida homog\u00e9nea\u201d, dijo Debbie Mesloh, una amiga que tambi\u00e9n trabaj\u00f3 para Harris como directora de comunicaciones y consultora. "Es una persona muy ingeniosa porque puede moverse entre estos mundos".<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vice President Kamala Harris graduated from Howard University in 1986. Her graduating year photo is in the bottom row, second from right. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Harris pas\u00f3 su adolescencia en Montreal y se mud\u00f3 all\u00ed con su hermana y su madre cuando Gopalan acept\u00f3 un puesto de investigaci\u00f3n universitaria all\u00ed. Obtuvo una licenciatura en ciencias pol\u00edticas y econom\u00eda en la Universidad Howard en Washington DC, pero regres\u00f3 a California para obtener su t\u00edtulo en derecho en 1989 en la Universidad de California, Hastings en San Francisco.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Until her most recent move to Washington, she called California home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fresh out of law school, she joined the Alameda County district attorney\u2019s office in 1990, serving there eight years before crossing the bay to San Francisco. In 2003, she unexpectedly won election as San Francisco district attorney, where she served two terms before her narrow election as state attorney general in 2010. She was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. The influence of king\/queen-maker Willie Brown<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Former state Assembly Speaker and San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown has helped accelerate many a successful political career in California (including that of Gov. Gavin Newsom<\/a>). Harris got a boost from Brown, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In March 1994, San Francisco Chronicle\u2019s legendary columnist Herb Caen described the scene at Brown\u2019s surprise 60th birthday party. Clint Eastwood was there, wrote Caen, and he \u201cspilled champagne on the Speaker\u2019s new steady, Kamala Harris.\u201d Brown had a reputation for dating much younger women. In his column, Caen described Harris, then a deputy district attorney of Alameda County, as \u201csomething new in Willie\u2019s love life. She\u2019s a woman, not a girl.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

La relaci\u00f3n termin\u00f3 despu\u00e9s de dos a\u00f1os, pero su conexi\u00f3n con Brown, tres d\u00e9cadas mayor que ella, tuvo un efecto enorme en su carrera.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Willie Brown and Kamala Harris in 1994. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

"Creo que es justo decir que la mayor\u00eda de la gente en San Francisco la conoci\u00f3 a trav\u00e9s de Willie", dijo John Burton, quien sol\u00eda ser presidente interino del Senado estatal, ex presidente del Partido Dem\u00f3crata de California y una potencia pol\u00edtica de San Francisco. por derecho propio, dijo Politico<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

El orador le dio a Harris un par de puestos destacados en dos juntas reguladoras estatales: la Junta de Apelaciones del Seguro de Desempleo y la Comisi\u00f3n de Asistencia M\u00e9dica de California. \u201cSi le pidieran que formara parte de una junta que regulara la atenci\u00f3n m\u00e9dica, \u00bfdir\u00eda que no?\u201d Harris dijo SF Semanal<\/a> Unos a\u00f1os despues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harris\u2019 connection to Brown also helped her make connections across San Francisco high-society and California political elite. In 1996, a year after Brown became mayor and Harris broke off the relationship, she joined the board of trustees at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cuando Harris se postul\u00f3 para fiscal de distrito de San Francisco casi una d\u00e9cada despu\u00e9s, su primera contribuci\u00f3n<\/a> vino de Elaine McKeon, presidente de la junta del museo<\/a>. More \u2014 much more \u2014 poured in from donors with last names like Fisher, Getty, Buell, Haas and other noble houses of the Bay Area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pero desde el comienzo de su carrera pol\u00edtica, Harris ha visto su conexi\u00f3n con Brown como un lastre, un garrote que sus oponentes puede usar contra ella<\/a> y, en el peor de los casos, un tropo sexista y cansado sol\u00eda cuestionar la legitimidad<\/a> of her ascendant career. In the first run to be San Francisco\u2019s district attorney, Harris deliberately hired a campaign consultant known for working with clients outside the Brown political machine. During that same campaign, she described her past relationship with the former speaker and mayor as \u201can albatross hanging around my neck.\u201d

And in 2020, marr\u00f3n escribi\u00f3<\/a> that if Biden offered her the chance to be his running mate, she should turn him down \u2014 noting that “the glory would be short-lived, and historically, the vice presidency has often ended up being a dead end.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He recently told a reporter, regretfully, that he and Harris are no longer in touch<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. Falta de claridad<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

You saw it in the presidential race. You\u2019ve seen it in her as vice president<\/a>. As the New York Times once Ponlo<\/a>: \u201cel contenido de su mensaje sigue siendo un trabajo en progreso\u201d. Lo vimos antes en California.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mientras dirig\u00eda el Departamento de Justicia de California, Harris a menudo se resist\u00eda a meterse en las batallas pol\u00edticas que ten\u00edan lugar a s\u00f3lo unas cuadras de distancia en la Legislatura estatal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Estaba el proyecto de ley que habr\u00eda requerido que su oficina investigara los tiroteos policiales. Ella no tom\u00f3 una posici\u00f3n formal (aunque s\u00ed lo hizo). decirle a un periodista<\/a> ser\u00eda una mala pol\u00edtica). El proyecto de ley muri\u00f3. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Exist\u00eda la propuesta de obligar a los departamentos de polic\u00eda a recopilar datos sobre el origen \u00e9tnico y la raza de los civiles que detienen. Harris tambi\u00e9n rechazado<\/a> para tomar una posici\u00f3n. Pas\u00f3 de todos modos. <\/p>\n\n\n\t\n\t\t

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El futuro est\u00e1 en California, dice Gavin Newsom elogiando a Kamala Harris. \u00bfPero cu\u00e1l es el suyo?<\/a><\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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\u201cThe idea that she would have consistent positions on issues informed by ideology isn\u2019t who she is.”<\/p>Corey cook, political scientist and provost of St. Mary’s College<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Esto le vali\u00f3 una reprimenda del consejo editorial de Los Angeles Times, que escribi\u00f3<\/a> en su respaldo a su candidatura al Senado de 2016 que Harris \u201cha sido demasiado cautelosa y poco dispuesta a adoptar una posici\u00f3n sobre temas controvertidos, incluso cuando su voz habr\u00eda sido valiosa para el debate\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What some critics call prevarication or flip-floppery, her supporters call pragmatism. Those are just two ways of describing the same quality, said Corey Cook, a political scientist and provost at St. Mary\u2019s College, and a longtime observer of San Francisco politics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cElla no es una ide\u00f3loga\u201d, dijo, es decir, en lugar de definir la agenda m\u00e1s audaz e ideol\u00f3gicamente coherente, tiende a centrarse en soluciones individuales a problemas espec\u00edficos. Por lo tanto, la "agenda de las 3am<\/a>\u201d de su campa\u00f1a presidencial, una colecci\u00f3n de cambios de pol\u00edticas dise\u00f1ados para abordar los problemas que mantienen despierto al votante promedio por la noche.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

"La idea de que ella tendr\u00eda posiciones consistentes sobre temas informados por la ideolog\u00eda no es lo que ella es", dijo Cook. Harris puede parecer que elige sus batallas, dijo, porque para ella \u201clas \u00fanicas soluciones duraderas ser\u00e1n aquellas que puedan sostener una coalici\u00f3n mayoritaria de apoyo\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4. Making a mark: sex crimes, domestic violence, child abuse<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Harris has never shied away from the \u201ctough on crime\u201d label when it comes to a certain class of criminals: domestic violence perpetrators, child abusers and sex traffickers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despu\u00e9s de casi una d\u00e9cada en el condado de Alameda y un breve per\u00edodo como fiscal adjunta de distrito en San Francisco (se fue, llamando a los l\u00edderes all\u00ed "disfuncional<\/a>\u201d), en 2000, Harris se uni\u00f3 a la oficina del fiscal de la ciudad de San Francisco bajo la direcci\u00f3n de Louise Renne.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Renne dijo que estaba buscando a alguien para dirigir la unidad de Servicios para Ni\u00f1os y Familias de la oficina, que investiga casos de abuso infantil. Este no se consideraba un puesto prestigioso. Los fiscales dentro de la unidad hab\u00edan empezado a llamarla \u201cley infantil\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Renne pens\u00f3 que Harris, que se hab\u00eda centrado en casos de abuso infantil y explotaci\u00f3n sexual en el condado de Alameda, encajar\u00eda bien.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cShe comes into my office and says \u2018Come on, Louise, we\u2019ve got to go over to court. There are going to be adoptions today,\u2019 and she had all these teddy bears.\u201d<\/p>Louise Renne, former SF City attorney<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Ese instinto se confirm\u00f3 el primer d\u00eda de trabajo de Harris, dijo Renne, cuando varios ni\u00f1os que hab\u00edan sido separados de sus padres fueron adoptados formalmente en nuevas familias.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cElla entra a mi oficina y dice: 'Vamos, Louise, tenemos que ir a la corte. Hoy habr\u00e1 adopciones', y ella ten\u00eda todos estos ositos de peluche\u201d, record\u00f3 Renne. \u201cElla conoc\u00eda la ocasi\u00f3n. Sab\u00eda que era importante y deb\u00eda celebrarse\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harris\u2019 focus on the victims of abuse and exploitation continued after she was elected as San Francisco\u2019s District Attorney.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know what the term \u2018teenage prostitute\u2019 means. I have never met a \u2018teenage prostitute.\u2019 I have met exploited kids,\u201d Mesloh, then Harris\u2019 communications director, recalls her boss saying at her first all-staff meeting. Harris then ordered her prosecutors not to use the term in court. A year later, Harris sponsored a bill putting the crime of human trafficking into the state criminal code.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some Democrats say Harris\u2019 prior life as a prosecutor with a focus on sex crimes would be a key advantage<\/a> in a potential general election contest against Trump, who has been found liable in a civil case for sexual assault<\/a> and recently became the first former president to be convicted of a felony. In that case, the 34 counts were related to the falsifying of business records in connection to an alleged sexual encounter with a pornographic film actress. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pero el uso de toda la fuerza de la ley para penalizar a proxenetas, traficantes y otros abusadores le ha valido a Harris algunas cr\u00edticas por parte de libertarios civiles<\/a> y de defensores de las trabajadoras sexuales<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In one of her final acts as California\u2019s attorney general, Harris had the CEO of Backpage.com, Carl Ferrer, arrested on pimping charges. Backpage was an online classifieds site known for its \u201cadult services\u201d section, which prosecutors had long warned served as a marketplace for sex traffickers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

El arresto se bas\u00f3 en un argumento legal pol\u00e9mico que enfrenta el fervor contra la trata de personas con la Primera Enmienda. Dado que Backpage era simplemente una plataforma para anuncios, argumentaron sus abogados, estaba protegida por la misma ley que protege a Google de ser considerado responsable por los sitios web il\u00edcitos que figuran en sus resultados de b\u00fasqueda. Un juez del tribunal superior acordado<\/a> and threw out the case, though an amended charge, pursued by Harris\u2019 successor, then-Attorney General Xavier Becerra, led Ferrer to declararse culpable<\/a> al blanqueo de dinero y a la conspiraci\u00f3n para facilitar la prostituci\u00f3n y al cierre del sitio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5. The Harris mantra: ‘Smart on Crime’<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Una de las razones por las que Harris se hizo conocida como una fiscal de distrito estrella en ascenso fue su enfoque en la prevenci\u00f3n, que explic\u00f3 en su libro: Inteligente contra el crimen<\/em>, escrito en 2009, un a\u00f1o antes de postularse para fiscal general. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

"Los profesionales de la salud p\u00fablica saben que el uso m\u00e1s beneficioso de los recursos es prevenir un brote, no tratarlo", escribi\u00f3 Harris. "En lugar de simplemente reaccionar ante un delito cada vez que se comete, tenemos que dar un paso atr\u00e1s y descubrir c\u00f3mo interrumpir las rutas de infecci\u00f3n".<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kamala Harris as San Francisco District Attorney on June 18, 2004. Photo by Marcio Jose Sanchez, AP Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

El programa \u201cBack on Track\u201d de Harris, considerado la implementaci\u00f3n m\u00e1s exitosa de esta idea, redirigi\u00f3 a los delincuentes no violentos relacionados con drogas por primera vez a educaci\u00f3n supervisada, cursos de capacitaci\u00f3n laboral, sesiones de terapia y clases de habilidades para la vida. Era un programa modesto, pero novedoso en comparaci\u00f3n con lo que hac\u00edan la mayor\u00eda de los agentes del orden de las grandes ciudades en 2005. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn that time period, I think that she was a radical,\u201d said Mesloh,  who clarified in a later interview that she used the term to mean creative and bold, not politically extreme. The program has since been emulated by cities around the country. When Harris became attorney general, she launched a similar pilot program for Los Angeles County.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harris\u2019 focus on prevention produced some of her key accomplishments as district attorney. But in the context of the 2020 presidential primary, some of those same accomplishments struck many critics on the left as overly punitive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Un a\u00f1o despu\u00e9s de lanzar Back on Track, Harris present\u00f3 una iniciativa contra el ausentismo escolar. Bas\u00e1ndose en una correlaci\u00f3n estad\u00edstica de que los que faltan cr\u00f3nicamente a clases tienen m\u00e1s probabilidades de ser perpetradores y v\u00edctimas de homicidio, la oficina de Harris comenz\u00f3 a amenazar con procesar a los padres de los estudiantes persistentemente ausentes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harris se apresur\u00f3 a se\u00f1alar que el \u201cgarrote\u201d de este enfoque del palo y la zanahoria solo surgi\u00f3 despu\u00e9s de una serie de intervenciones cada vez mayores, incluidas reuniones obligatorias con el personal escolar y los trabajadores sociales. Nadie fue a la c\u00e1rcel bajo el programa, aunque un pu\u00f1ado de padres fueron multados. En unos pocos a\u00f1os, las tasas de ausentismo escolar en la ciudad cayeron en un tercero<\/a> y Harris se atribuy\u00f3 el m\u00e9rito. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2010 su oficina patrocin\u00f3 un proyecto de ley<\/a> to take the program statewide. In the hands of other district attorneys, the statute was used in at least a pu\u00f1ado<\/a> de<\/a> casos<\/a> poner a los padres tras las rejas. Los cr\u00edticos han dicho que la pol\u00edtica ha sido desproporcionadamente ejercido contra padres pobres de color<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a 2019 entrevista<\/a>, Harris said she regretted any \u201cunintended consequences\u201d of the state law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

6. Harris (casi) siempre se ha opuesto a la pena capital<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Her opposition to the death penalty has been one of the most controversial stands in her career, but it\u2019s also an example for those who criticize her lack of consistency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

El 10 de abril de 2004, tres meses despu\u00e9s de su toma de posesi\u00f3n como nueva fiscal de distrito de San Francisco, el oficial de polic\u00eda Isaac Espinoza, de 29 a\u00f1os, fue asesinado a tiros por un joven de 21 a\u00f1os con un AK-47. Tres d\u00edas despu\u00e9s, Harris cumpli\u00f3 una promesa de campa\u00f1a y prometi\u00f3 no buscar la pena de muerte para el tirador. Posteriormente, David Hill fue declarado culpable de asesinato en segundo grado y sentenciado a cadena perpetua sin posibilidad de libertad condicional.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La decisi\u00f3n gener\u00f3 una reacci\u00f3n violenta, como era de esperar, del sindicato de polic\u00edas y reprimendas de los pol\u00edticos. "\u00c9sta no es s\u00f3lo la definici\u00f3n de tragedia", dijo la senadora Dianne Feinstein en el funeral de Espinoza, "es la circunstancia especial que exige la ley de pena de muerte". Los oficiales reunidos vitorearon mientras Harris permanec\u00eda sentado. <\/p>\n\n\n\t\n\t\t

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En 2014, cuando un juez del tribunal federal fall\u00f3<\/a> Como la administraci\u00f3n de la pena de muerte en California era inconstitucional, Harris apel\u00f3 la decisi\u00f3n como fiscal general del estado, argumentando que \u201cno estaba respaldada por la ley\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

harris m\u00e1s tarde dicho<\/a> que estaba obligada a defender la pena capital como representante legal del Estado. Muchos han se\u00f1alado que ella estaba contenta de no defender una prohibici\u00f3n constitucional del matrimonio entre personas del mismo sexo que los votantes aprobaron en la Proposici\u00f3n 8 cuando fue impugnada un a\u00f1o antes. La respuesta de Harris: Ella simplemente estaba reflejando la posici\u00f3n de su cliente, la administraci\u00f3n del gobernador Jerry Brown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ella tambi\u00e9n explicado<\/a> que el fallo del juez, que sostuvo que los largos retrasos entre la sentencia y la ejecuci\u00f3n en California equival\u00edan a un \u201ccastigo cruel e inusual\u201d, podr\u00eda usarse para justificar la aceleraci\u00f3n del sistema estatal de pena capital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

7. Controversias de extralimitaci\u00f3n fiscal<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Tanto como fiscal de distrito como fiscal general del estado, Harris dirigi\u00f3 oficinas que, seg\u00fan los defensores de la justicia penal, eran demasiado agresivas en la b\u00fasqueda de condenas y carec\u00edan de transparencia de una manera que contradice la marca de Harris como "fiscal progresista<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En marzo de 2010, justo cuando Harris hac\u00eda campa\u00f1a para convertirse en fiscal general de California, las autoridades de San Francisco cerraron un laboratorio criminal\u00edstico del departamento de polic\u00eda en el astillero naval Hunters Point de la ciudad. Una t\u00e9cnica llamada Deborah Madden fue acusada de robar drogas, lo que gener\u00f3 dudas m\u00e1s amplias sobre la capacidad del laboratorio para manejar adecuadamente las pruebas en casos penales. (Madden luego se declar\u00f3 culpable). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harris desestim\u00f3 inmediatamente 20 casos de drogas, pero el n\u00famero finalmente aument\u00f3 a m\u00e1s de 1.500<\/a> despu\u00e9s de que los documentos mostraran que los fiscales dentro de la oficina de Harris sab\u00edan de la posible falta de confiabilidad de Madden meses antes de que se cerrara el laboratorio, pero no se lo hab\u00edan informado a los abogados defensores. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Un juez del tribunal superior m\u00e1s tarde excoriado<\/a> Harris, escribiendo que las violaciones infringieron los derechos constitucionales de los acusados. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Posteriormente, Harris form\u00f3 una unidad para manejar el intercambio de pruebas con los abogados defensores penales. Ella tambi\u00e9n ha dicho que ella No sab\u00eda<\/a> sobre los problemas en el laboratorio criminal\u00edstico hasta despu\u00e9s de que estall\u00f3 el esc\u00e1ndalo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But that hasn\u2019t done much to assuage the concerns of critics who say Harris had a tendency toward prosecutorial overreach<\/a>, which continued once Harris became the state\u2019s attorney general.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kamala Harris is sworn in as California’s attorney general on Jan. 6, 2011. Photo via the Office of the Attorney General of California.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

En 2015, por ejemplo, los abogados de un recluso condenado por asesinato intentaron que se desestimara el caso despu\u00e9s de que nuevas pruebas sugirieran que los fiscales del condado de Riverside mintieron en el estrado durante el juicio inicial. La oficina de Harris, que representa al sistema penitenciario estatal, se resisti\u00f3 y solo retrocedi\u00f3 despu\u00e9s de que se filmara una de sus diputados siendo destripados<\/a> por tres jueces federales se volvi\u00f3 viral. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Un portavoz de su campa\u00f1a presidencial, abandonada desde entonces, dijo que Harris orden\u00f3 a su oficina que abandonara la impugnaci\u00f3n tan pronto como \u201cse dio cuenta\u201d del caso.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Los cr\u00edticos se\u00f1alan otros ejemplos. Estaba la decisi\u00f3n de su oficina de defender<\/a> una condena por abuso sexual que los fiscales locales hab\u00edan obtenido con una confesi\u00f3n falsa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Asked about that case, the spokesperson said that it was \u201clong-standing practice\u201d for prosecutors within the Californian Department of Justice to file legal motions without the express approval of the Attorney General, implying that, again, Harris was not aware that her office was making the argument. But in this case, the spokesperson added, state prosecutors believed \u201cthe original case\u2026was valid and that the victim in the case deserved justice.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Otro ejemplo: la de su oficina. rechazo<\/a> to take over a 2011 Seal Beach mass shooting case after a judge recused the entire Orange County District Attorney\u2019s office for widespread prosecutorial misconduct. Harris defendido<\/a> su decisi\u00f3n: \u201cse estaba manejando a nivel local\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Se espera tal historial de cualquier fiscal, dijo Sally Lieber, quien trabaj\u00f3 con Harris en la legislaci\u00f3n sobre trata de personas mientras representaba a Mountain View en la Asamblea estatal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt is an adversarial system and so she was filling a particular role, but I think that she was able to do it in a very sophisticated, smart and responsive way,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

8. As California’s AG: Playing hardball<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

El mayor logro de Harris mientras era fiscal general de California fue lograr un acuerdo financiero con algunos de los bancos m\u00e1s grandes del pa\u00eds acusados de ejecutar hipotecas ilegalmente a propietarios de viviendas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En septiembre de 2011, Harris se retir\u00f3 de las negociaciones en curso entre los fiscales generales de casi todos los estados de EE. UU. y los cinco bancos. vocaci\u00f3n<\/a> el acuerdo propuesto de $2 a $4 mil millones de \u201cmigajas sobre la mesa\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Then-California Attorney General Kamala Harris at the California Democrats State Convention in San Diego, on Feb. 11, 2012. Photo by Gregory Bull, AP Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Harris no fue el primer fiscal general en retirarse, pero la salida del estado m\u00e1s grande del pa\u00eds pareci\u00f3 tener el efecto deseado.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unos meses m\u00e1s tarde, con California de nuevo en juego, se lleg\u00f3 a un nuevo acuerdo. Esta vez, California obtuvo $20,2 mil millones en reducciones de deuda y asistencia financiera directa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A\u00fan as\u00ed, algunos grupos de consumidores y expertos externos criticaron el acuerdo, argumentando que los bancos se habr\u00edan visto obligados a cancelar gran parte de esa deuda incobrable eventualmente. \u201cTodo chisporroteante, sin bistec<\/a>\u201d, as\u00ed lo expres\u00f3 el profesor de derecho de Georgetown, Adam Levitin. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pero la voluntad de Harris de jugar duro result\u00f3 en un acuerdo mayor, dijo Rob McKenna, ex fiscal general de Washington que form\u00f3 parte de las negociaciones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEs posible que los estados exageren el impacto que tuvieron en el acuerdo final. El ex Fiscal General de Nueva York (Eric Schneiderman) a veces hac\u00eda afirmaciones sobre el acuerdo y las mejoras que hab\u00eda obtenido\u201d, dijo. "Pero es justo decir que el Fiscal General Harris negoci\u00f3 y obtuvo algunas mejoras en el acuerdo para California".<\/p>\n\n\n\n

9. Kamala the campaigner <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Harris launched her 2020 presidential campaign high on fanfare and hype, only to flame out less than a year later<\/a> before even making it to Iowa. It was a historically stark underperformance from a candidate that many Democratic insiders believed would be a formidable contender. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In California, Harris\u2019 electoral track record has been mixed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her first spin on the campaign trail was a superlative success. In her 2003 race for San Francisco District Attorney, she pushed out a two-term incumbent and won more votes than any other candidate running for a city-wide office that year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harris\u2019 first run for statewide office didn\u2019t go quite smoothly. Her race for Attorney General against Republican Steve Cooley wasn\u2019t called until weeks after Election Day<\/a>. Yes, Harris won. But she did so by less than a percentage point. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, after 18 years in which not a single Republican has won statewide office in California, it\u2019s easy to look back at that nail-biter of an election and see an early sign of Harris\u2019 weakness as a candidate. But at the time, the calculus was a little different. Cooley, a relative moderate, was considered the favorite to win against Harris, a San Francisco liberal. This was 2010, which proved to be a historic landslide election for the GOP. The fact that Harris eked it out despite those headwinds, and as the first woman and person of color to hold that office no less, cemented her status as a rising star<\/a> in the Democratic Party. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"El
El gobernador Gavin Newsom y la candidata dem\u00f3crata a la vicepresidencia, la senadora Kamala Harris, conversan mientras eval\u00faan los da\u00f1os durante el incendio Creek en la escuela primaria Pine Ridge el 15 de septiembre de 2020 en Auberry. Foto de Gary Kazanjian, AP Photo <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Also rising was Gavin Newsom. The two were San Francisco friends and ran in the same social circles even before their political careers ignited. They share the same political consultants. And when the two most prestigious California elective offices opened up \u2014 for governor and U.S. senator \u2014 they sidestepped a ballot rivalry when she successfully ran for the Senate, as did he for governor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Newsom tiene dicho<\/a> \u2014 and recently reiterated<\/a> \u2014 that he would not challenge Harris for the Democratic presidential nomination should Biden withdraw. Although Newsom’s name frequently appears<\/a> on lists of hypothetical Biden replacements, Biden’s endorsement indicates she is the heir-apparent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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