Who You Are, Nobody Knows
[Originally published March 7, 2019] “America has a deep and dark history of people using the power of the prosecutor as an instrument of injustice,” writes Democratic presidential contender Kamala Harris in her recently published memoir The Truths We Hold: An American Journey . The former California attorney general and current U.S. senator continues: I knew this history well – of innocent men framed, of charges brought against people of color without sufficient evidence, of prosecutors hiding information that would exonerate defendants, of the disproportionate application of the law. I grew up with these stories […] But history told another story, too. I knew the history of brave prosecutors […] I knew the legacy of Robert Kennedy, who, as U.S. attorney general, sent Department of Justice officials to protect the Freedom Riders in 1961, and sent the U.S. Marshals to protect James Meredith when he enrolled at Ole Miss the next year. [1] Kennedy, for staunch Zionist Harris, was