Kamala Harris hit by fresh plagiarism allegations

Kamala Harris has become embroiled in a second plagiarism row after she was accused of copying a Republican’s congressional testimony.

The vice-president was last week accused of taking more than a dozen sections of her book Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor’s Plan to Make Us Safer from other sources, including a story once told by Martin Luther King Jr.

Now, fresh allegations have emerged that the former prosecutor lifted more than 1,000 words from the testimony of a Republican state attorney when called as a witness before Congress.