California Democratic Sen. Kamala Harris has proven to be an astute and forceful questioner during Senate committee hearings. Harris, a freshman senator and the former attorney general of the state of California and district attorney of San Francisco, is knowledgable on a wide array of topics related to the law and the intelligence community. And […]

Once again, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), a former prosecutor, was interrupted by Republican men on the Senate Intelligence Committee. This time, it was while she was attempting to question Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who was testifying about the Trump campaign’s involvement with Russia, and his own interactions with Russian agents. Apparently, Harris’ male Republican colleagues […]

During his confirmation hearing, Department of Homeland Security nominee, General John Kelly of the Marine Corps, seemed caught entirely off-guard when Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) raised questions about immigrants currently protected under the Obama administration’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, which provides a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as […]

In 2012, after years of attempts to get the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act — known as the DREAM Act — through Congress and onto his desk, President Obama announced that his administration would stop deporting certain young undocumented immigrants who met specific criteria, and who would have been protected by the DREAM Act. […]