2020 US Elections | Biden certified as President | Dems control Congress

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Eboue said:



Consider her record as San Francisco’s district attorney from 2004 to 2011. Ms. Harris was criticized in 2010 for withholding information about a police laboratory technician who had been accused of “intentionally sabotaging” her work and stealing drugs from the lab. After a memo surfaced showing that Ms. Harris’s deputies knew about the technician’s wrongdoing and recent conviction, but failed to alert defense lawyers, a judge condemned Ms. Harris’s indifference to the systemic violation of the defendants’ constitutional rights.

Ms. Harris also championed state legislation under which parents whose children were found to be habitually truant in elementary school could be prosecuted, despite concerns that it woulddisproportionately affect low-income people of color.

She laughed that year when a reporter asked if she would support the legalization of marijuana for recreational use. Ms. Harris finally reversed course in 2018, long after public opinion had shifted on the topic.[

That case is not an outlier. Ms. Harris also fought to keep Daniel Larsen in prison on a 28-year-to-life sentence for possession of a concealed weapon even though his trial lawyer was incompetent and there was compelling evidence of his innocence. Relying on a technicality again, Ms. Harris argued that Mr. Larsen failed to raise his legal arguments in a timely fashion. (This time, she lost.)

She also defended Johnny Baca’s conviction for murder even though judges found a prosecutor presented false testimony at the trial. She relented only after a video of the oral argument received national attention and embarrassed her office.

there’s Kevin Cooper, the death row inmate whose trial was infected by racism and corruption. He sought advanced DNA testing to prove his innocence, but Ms. Harris opposed it.
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Zarlak said:
What is the consensus on Tulsi? I know nothing about her, but I seem to remember reading posts by people here telling her to feck off. What has she done or hasn't she done?
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I grew up in Hawaii so I have to like her.

I'm a fan of her foreign policy, genuinely speaking.
 
Gabbard has been impressive tonight. Concise but straight for the jugular and to the point every time.
 
They should have just gone with Biden, Booker, Harris, Warren, Gabbard, Klobuchar, Delaney (for the laughs), Sanders, Buttigieg and O'Rourke in one debate and lumped the remaining also rans in another.
 
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