As Kamala Harris positions for a likely presidential run that could be announced as early as this week, the senator and onetime San Francisco District Attorney and California Attorney General fielded an early hit on her criminal justice record Thursday in the form of a scathing opinion piece in The New York Times.
Lara Bazelon is a law professor and writer. The recipient of MacDowell and Mesa Refuge residencies, her op-eds and essays have been published in the New York Times,The Atlantic Magazine, New York Magazine, Washington Post, Slate, and Politico, among other media outlets. Her nonfiction book, AMBITIOUS LIKE A MOTHER: WHY PRIORITIZING YOUR JOB IS GOOD FOR YOUR KIDS is available for pre-order and will be published on April 19.