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Kamala Harris was the first person of color elected as San Francisco’s district attorney. @kzernike looks back at Harris’s work as DA and California attorney general. nyti.ms/2DtnSGc
In a dozen years as the top law enforcement official of San Francisco and then California, Kamala Harris was as much politician as prosecutor. More practical than ideological, she was defined most by resisting easy definition, @kzernike reports. nyti.ms/2DtnSGc 
Kamala Harris describes her thinking — about criminal justice, but also about the other issues animating her presidential candidacy, like health care and economic inequality — as scientific. nyti.ms/2DtnSGc
Now Kamala Harris is running for president as a “progressive prosecutor.” She says she sees no contradiction in the term, arguing that a tough prosecutor can also be a force for reforming the criminal-justice system. nyti.ms/2DtnSGc
