on this elevator right now.” The next week, Harris faced Biden onstage with eight other candidates. There, she went beyond “concern”:

It was hurtful to hear you talk about the reputations of two United States senators who built their reputations and career on segregation of race in this country. And it was not only that, but you also worked with them to oppose busing. And you know, there was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools and she was bussed to school every day and that little girl was me.

Biden was flustered, caught off-guard by this unexpected expression of lived experience. “Busing” helped a young Harris get a quality education at an integrated school. And while the city ofevaluating  physician was to make ultimate medication decision. The court disagreed with the trial judge that forcible medication, absent an emergency, could be administered only after an adjudication of incompetence. It also rejected the trial court's holding that voluntary patients could refuse medication, stating that a voluntary patient who wished to refuse treatment should leave the hospital. 

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