California’s newly elected U.S. senator, Kamala Harris, said she plans to keep doing her day job as state attorney general until the day she is sworn into her new office.
“I have every intention to continue as AG through the end of the year,” Harris told The Times in an interview Thursday.
Harris will take the oath of office on Jan. 3, and she’ll officially step down as attorney general shortly before the ceremony, she said.
Once Harris resigns her state post, Gov. Jerry Brown has the authority under the state Constitution to select a new attorney general to serve out the remainder of her term — subject to majority approval by both houses of the California Legislature.
Brown can take as long as he wishes to appoint a replacement once Harris leaves office. In the interim, the chief deputy attorney general will oversee the more than 4,500 employees in the office.