Elizabeth Warren

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Elizabeth Warren (2019)

Elizabeth Ann Warren (* 22. June 1949 in Oklahoma City , Oklahoma as Elizabeth Herring ) is an American lawyer and politician of the Democratic Party . She has represented the state of Massachusetts in the United States Senate since 2013 . As a professor at Harvard Law School , she was an expert on consumer bankruptcies and initiated the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau established under President Barack Obama . As a vehement critic of President Donald Trump , she applied for the 2020 presidential candidacy in her party's primary election , but withdrew it after poor results at Super Tuesday .

Family, education and work

Warren at a campaign rally in November 2012

Elizabeth Warren is the daughter of US military flight instructor Donald Herring and mail order employee Pauline geb. Reed. She had three older brothers; Warren's eldest brother Don died on April 21, 2020 at the age of 86 of COVID-19 . After her father had a heart attack, Elizabeth and her mother had to contribute to the family income.

In high school, she won state-wide debating competitions. On a full scholarship, she began studying at George Washington University at the age of 16 . At the age of 19, she married her childhood sweetheart Jim Warren and followed him to Texas, where she graduated from the University of Houston with a BS in 1970 . She became pregnant, moved to New Jersey with her husband and initially worked as a housewife and mother for a few years. She was a speech therapist at a New Jersey elementary school in the early 1970s until she enrolled at Rutgers University . She became pregnant for the second time and earned the Juris Doctor in 1976 . In 1977/78 she had a teaching position at Rutgers University and then moved back to Texas with her husband. There she taught from 1978 to 1983 at the University of Houston and from 1981 to 1987 at the University of Texas at Austin .

In 1978 she divorced Warren and married Harvard professor Bruce Mann in 1980 . In 1987 Warren became Professor of Business Law at the University of Pennsylvania ; In 1992/93, Harvard Law School appointed her visiting professor for business law. From 1995 to 2002 she was Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where she taught contract , bankruptcy and commercial law. As a specialist journalist, she has published over a hundred articles and ten books.

Warren has a daughter and a son. She is a Methodist and has taught Sunday Schools in Texas . She was vice chairman of the American Law Institute and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Political career

Political advisor in consumer protection

Warren was on the electoral roll as a Republican until the mid-1990s . In 1994 she was appointed by Mike Synar as principal advisor to the National Bankruptcy Review Commission set up by President Bill Clinton to develop proposals to combat the surge in consumer bankruptcies . This paved the way for her entry into politics.

In the course of the financial crisis from 2007 onwards , Warren became a powerful voice in the regulation of banks and financial markets. On November 14, 2008, she was appointed by then Senate majority leader Harry Reid to chair the congressional supervisory body investigating the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). She proposed the establishment of a government agency to protect consumers from harmful financial transactions. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau based on this proposal had President Barack Obama set up by signing the relevant law on July 21, 2010. Warren was appointed Special Advisor to the President and the Treasury Department by Obama on September 17, 2010, and should have directed it, which was politically unenforceable against the interests of Wall Street and the opposition of the Republicans in the Senate. As a result, Warren resigned as Special Adviser to the President on August 1, 2011.

Senator for Massachusetts

On August 18, 2011, Warren announced her candidacy for the United States Senate in Massachusetts. She was nominated by the Democratic Party as a candidate for election on November 6, 2012 in the state of Massachusetts by prevailing against lawyer Marisa DeFranco in the decisive party meeting in June 2012. Warren spoke at the Democratic National Convention in September 2012 . In the main election in November 2012, Warren met the Republican mandate holder Scott Brown , who had surprisingly won the by-election for the mandate of the late Edward Kennedy in early 2010 . The election campaign was one of the most expensive for a Senate seat at around $ 70 million. Because of its importance in maintaining the Senate majority for the Democratic Party, approximately $ 38 million in campaign donations flowed from outside the state; Warren was supported by Governor Deval Patrick and major unions. In contrast, investment banks, insurance, and real estate companies gave Brown over $ 6 million. Warren won with 54 to 46 percent of the vote.

In December 2012 Warren was elected to the banking committee, where he represents the left wing of the Democrats with Sherrod Brown (Ohio). In the Senate, Warren defended Obamacare health care reform against harsh Republican attacks and advocated this major change more strongly and consistently than most of her party’s other members. In November 2014, Harry Reid proposed Warren for the Democratic Party leadership in the Senate. In January 2017, she was elected Vice-Chair of the Senate Democratic Conference . <

In 2015, some media speculated about Warren's 2016 presidential candidacy. Despite being pressured into running by some left-wing activists, she declined. Warren announced her support for Hillary Clinton's presidential run in June 2016, later than most of her party colleagues in the U.S. Senate. Because of her popularity with the left wing of the party, she was often mentioned in the election campaign as a possible candidate for the office of vice-president as Clinton's running mate .

During the Senate hearing on the nomination of Jeff Sessions as justice minister , she was prohibited on 8 February 2017 of a letter from Martin Luther King's wife Coretta Scott King read in which these sessions accused of racism. Instead, Warren posted a video on her Facebook page that went viral and received over four million views in a matter of hours. The statement by Republican parliamentary group leader Mitch McConnell that Warren violated Senate rules and still carried on - "nevertheless, she persisted" - became a meme , a permanent political slogan for Warren and the motto of Women's History Month in March 2018.

Warren ran again for her previous Senate seat in the November 6, 2018 election . On election day, she was re-elected for a second (again six-year) term that began on January 3, 2019 with around 60 percent of the vote.

2020 presidential candidacy

Warren had been named as a possible challenger to President Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election since 2016 and declared in autumn 2018 that she would make a decision after the 2018 mid-term election . On December 31 of the same year she announced that she would run for the presidential election and had set up an exploratory committee for this purpose. She placed the issues of economic justice and the fight against corruption at the center of her campaign to win the internal party primaries for the Democrats. Her proposal, presented in January 2019, to introduce a wealth tax for the super-rich (2% annually for private wealth above 50 million dollars, 3% from one billion dollars), received the support of 61 percent of Americans (Democrats: 74 percent, Republicans: 50 percent), according to Gallup ). On February 9, 2019, she announced her official entry into the presidential candidacy, according to Zeit Online with the "declaration of war" that she would work against the "most corrupt government in living memory" and would tax the richest Americans for their "class war" against the middle class to end. On March 5, 2020, she withdrew her candidacy due to persistently poor election results.

Positions and controversies

Dispute over Indian ancestors

Since Warren entered politics in 2012, there has been a dispute over her claim to have Native American ancestors . Political opponents accuse her of having promoted her career as a result. In an Indian cookbook published in Oklahoma in 1984, she had contributed five recipes with the indication "Elizabeth Warren, Cherokee", some of which were copied verbatim from the New York Times , but since then have not spoken publicly about their origins. Warren had stated in the Association of American Law Schools' professorial directory from 1986 to 1994 and in her later teaching positions that she belonged to a minority, but not since 1995, since she taught permanently at Harvard. The local student newspaper Crimson wrote in 1996 that Warren had Native American ancestors, and in a 1997 article in the Fordham Law Review she was referred to as Harvard Law Schools "first woman of color ". From 1986 universities had asked their employees about their ethnic origin in order to counter allegations of discrimination against minorities. Warren herself had not previously indicated minority status in academic applications, but had handwritten that she was American Indian when she was admitted to the Oklahoma Bar in 1986 .

No historical documents have been found to confirm Warren's Native American ancestors. Warren relied on the family story that the father's family disapproved of Warren's mother "being part Cherokee and part Delaware ." In October 2018, Warren published the results of her DNA test carried out by Stanford professor Carlos D. Bustamante. Bustamante explained that there is "strong evidence" (strong evidence) that an ancestor Warren was before "six to ten generations" Native; With 0.09 to 1.5 percent Native American genome, however, Warren has a below-average proportion of the white US population. The Cherokee Nation criticized Warren. A DNA test, which, according to the current status, cannot technically differentiate between North and South American natives, does not prove a specific ancestry. In general, nationality is not based on genetic testing (most Native Americans refuse to take DNA tests for ethnicity). Warren's behavior dishonors those who legitimately belong to the Cherokee by evidence of specific ancestors and undermines the interests of the tribes. The anthropologist Kim Tallbear characterized Warren's claims as the behavior of whites to appropriate the identities of Native Americans when it seemed convenient to them.

Relationship with President Trump

Warren is considered to be one of the harshest critics of President Donald Trump . Warren was already noticed in the 2016 presidential election campaign for her criticism of the then Republican candidate. Among other things, she criticized Trump's role in the Trump University affair and described him as a thin skinned racist bully (" thin-skinned racist bully ") and as a fraud (for example: "cheater").

At an event in honor of the Navajo Code Talkers in November 2017, Trump quipped about Warren's claim of having Native American ancestors, calling her " Pocahontas " in Congress . Warren called Trump's statement a "racial slur". Trump uses this derision term for Warren over and over again.

When Bob Woodward's book Fear: Trump was published in the White House in September 2018 and the New York Times published the anonymous guest post by a supposedly high-ranking government official that was critical of Trump, Warren said it was time to initiate impeachment proceedings against Trump on the basis of Aug. To initiate amendments to the constitution .

Fonts

  • with Teresa A. Sullivan, Jay Westbrook: As We Forgive Our Debtors: Bankruptcy and Consumer Credit in America. Beard Books, 1999, ISBN 978-1-893122-15-4 ( review ).
  • with Teresa A. Sullivan, Jay Westbrook: The Fragile Middle Class: Americans in Debt. Yale University Press, 2001, ISBN 978-0-300-09171-7 .
  • with Amelia Warren Tyagi: The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Parents are Going Broke. Basic Books, 2004, ISBN 978-0-465-09090-7 .
  • with Amelia Warren Tyagi: All Your Worth: The Ultimate Lifetime Money Plan. Simon and Schuster, 2006, ISBN 978-0-7432-6988-9 .
  • with Lynn M. LoPucki , Daniel Keating, Ronald Mann, Norman Goldenberg: Casenote Legal Briefs: Commercial Law. Aspen Publishers, 2006, ISBN 978-0-7355-5827-4 .
  • The Vanishing Middle Class. In: John Edwards , Marion Crain, Arne L. Kalleberg (Eds.): Ending Poverty in America: How to Restore the American Dream. The New Press, 2007, ISBN 978-1-59558-176-1 .
  • with Lynn M. LoPucki: Chapter 11: Secured Credit: A Systems Approach. Wolters Kluwer Law & Business, 2008, ISBN 978-0-7355-7649-0 .
  • Chapter 11: Reorganizing American Businesses. (= Essentials. ). Aspen Publishers, 2008, ISBN 978-0-7355-7654-4 .
  • with Jay Lawrence Westbrook: The Law of Debtors and Creditors: Text, Cases, and Problems. 6th edition. Aspen Publishers, 2008, ISBN 978-0-7355-7626-1 .
  • A fighting chance. Metropolitan Books, 2014, ISBN 978-1-62779-052-9 (autobiography, also available as an audio book from Macmillan Audio, ISBN 978-1-4272-3916-7 ).
  • This fight is our fight. The Battle to Save America's Middle Class. Macmillan, 2017 (author reading, ISBN 978-1-4272-9187-5 ).

Web links

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Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Donald J Herring Obituary . In: The Daily Oklahoman . Oklahoma City, Oklahoma December 5, 1997, pp. 33 ( newspapers.com [accessed January 28, 2020]).
  3. ^ Danny Chancellor: Find a grave - Donald Jones Herring. Retrieved January 28, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Marc Pitzke : Strong women, weak machos. In: Spiegel Online , November 6, 2012
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g Elizabeth Warren Fast Facts. In: CNN.com , June 25, 2018.
  6. ↑ Elizabeth Warren's brother dies of coronavirus , April 23, 2020, The Mercury News
  7. ^ Dan Balz: Clinton, Warren and a tale of two book titles. In: The Washington Post , April 26, 2014.
  8. ↑ Warren Winning Means No Sale If You Can't Explain It In: Bloomberg.com , November 19, 2009.
  9. ^ The New Sheriffs of Wall Street. In: Time , May 13, 2010
  10. ↑ Elizabeth Warren at Harvard Law School .
  11. ^ EJ Dionne : Elizabeth Warren on health care and religion. In: The Washington Post , August 23, 2012.
  12. ↑ Leon Neyfakh: Elizabeth Warren's unorthodox career. In: The Boston Globe , October 22, 2011. See National Bankruptcy Review Commission: Fact Sheet. In: Govinfo , August 12, 1997.
  13. ^ Jodi Kantor: Behind Consumer Agency Idea, a Tireless Advocate. In: The New York Times , March 24, 2010.
  14. ↑ Brady Dennis: Elizabeth Warren, likely to head new consumer agency, provokes strong feelings. In: The Washington Post , November 18, 2010
  15. ↑ Shelby has said Warren is too ideological to lead the agency, a judgment shared by many of his Republican colleagues. In: Bloomberg.com , July 7, 2011
  16. ↑ Glen Johnson: Warren forms Senate exploratory committee. In: Boston.com , August 18, 2010.
  17. ^ Elizabeth Warren lands party endorsement with record 95 percent support at Massachusetts Democratic Convention. In: MassLive , June 2, 2012.
  18. ↑ Stephanie McCrummen: Elizabeth Warren defeats Scott Brown in the Massachusetts Senate race. In: The Washington Post , November 6, 2012.
  19. ^ A b Brian Montopoli: Elizabeth Warren assigned to Senate banking committee. In: CBS News , December 12, 2012.
  20. ↑ General Election 2012: MA US Senate. In: Our Campaigns.
  21. ^ EJ Dionne : Elizabeth Warren on health care and religion. In: The Washington Post , August 23, 2012.
  22. ↑ Warren, Elizabeth. In: Our Campaigns
  23. ↑ George Zornick: Elizabeth Warren Insists She's Not Running for President. These Activists Are Trying to Change Her Mind. In: The Nation , February 23, 2015.
  24. ^ Alban Murtishi: Sen. Elizabeth Warren's Facebook Live video goes viral after Republicans shut her down for impugning Jeff Sessions. In: MassLive , February 8, 2018.
  25. ↑ Daniel Victor: 'Nevertheless, She Persisted': How Senate's Silencing of Warren Became a Meme. In: The New York Times , February 8, 2018
  26. ^ Katie Reilly: Why 'Nevertheless, She Persisted' Is the Theme for This Year's Women's History Month. In: Time , March 1, 2018.
  27. ↑ Warren, Elizabeth. In: Our Campaigns.
  28. ↑ Natasha Korecki, Alex Thompson: Warren readies for 2020 run. In: Politico , October 15, 2018.
  29. ↑ Amanda Terkel, Kevin Robillard: Elizabeth Warren Moves Toward 2020 Bid With Launch Of Exploratory Committee. In: Huffington Post , December 31, 2018.
  30. ^ Presidential elections 2020: Elizabeth Warren wants to oust Donald Trump from the White House. In: FAZ.net , December 31, 2018.
  31. ↑ Geoffrey Skelley: Most Americans Support Warren's 'Ultramillionare Tax'. In: FiveThirtyEight , February 8, 2019.
  32. ↑ Elizabeth Warren is officially running for president. In: Zeit Online , February 10, 2019.
  33. ↑ Elizabeth Hartfield: Article Cites Elizabeth Warren As First Woman of Color Hired by Harvard Law School. In: ABC News , May 15, 2012.
  34. ^ Jon Greenberg: The facts behind Elizabeth Warren, her claimed Native American ties and Trump's 'Pocahontas' insult. In: Politifact.com , December 1, 2017
  35. ↑ Dana Milbank: Canned crab? Elizabeth Warren is unfit to lead. In: The Washington Post , October 15, 2018
  36. ↑ Chris Francescani: The real problem with Elizabeth Warren's DNA test: Geneticists. In: ABC News , October 18, 2018.
  37. ↑ Annie Linskey, Amy Gardner: Elizabeth Warren apologizes for calling herself Native American. In: The Washington Post , February 5, 2019.
  38. ↑ Chris Cillizza: Elizabeth Warren might have actually made things worse with her DNA gambit. In: CNN.com , October 16, 2018
  39. ↑ Warren releases DNA test suggesting distant Native American ancestor. In: The Washington Post , October 15, 2018.
  40. ^ William Cummings: Cherokee Nation slams Sen. Elizabeth Warren DNA test as 'inappropriate and wrong'. In: USA Today , October 16, 2018.
  41. ↑ Chris Francescani: The real problem with Elizabeth Warren's DNA test: Geneticists. In: ABC News , October 18, 2018.
  42. ^ Warren, Kaine, Castro on Clinton running-mate short list. In: Reuters , June 21, 2016.
  43. ↑ Elizabeth Warren labels Donald Trump 'nasty, thin-skinned fraud' in speech. In: The Boston Globe , June 9, 2016.
  44. ↑ When honoring indigenous people - Trump calls the Senator "Pocahontas". In: Spiegel Online , November 28, 2017
  45. ^ I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration. In: The New York Times , September 5, 2018
  46. ↑ Trump staff reports of "resistance" against US presidents. In: Spiegel Online , September 6, 2018.
  47. ^ Warren calls for 25th Amendment to be invoked against Trump. In: The Hill , September 6, 2018.
  48. ↑ Review (PDF; 30 MB).
personal data
SURNAME Warren, Elizabeth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Warren, Elizabeth Ann (full name); Herring, Elizabeth (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer and Democratic Party politician
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Oklahoma City , Oklahoma