She was a lateral hire onto the faculty of the Harvard Law School in 1995 after having listed herself as a minority of Native American descent, despite her fair-skinned appearance and a lack of persuasive documentary evidence for her claim to minority status.<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-controversy-over-elizabeth-warrens-claimed-native-american-heritage/2012/09/27/d0b7f568-08a5-11e2-a10c-fa5a255a9258_blog.html?utm_term=.367f03c92d5d Detailed summary of Warren's claimed minority status]</ref> "The pride of Harvard Law School, Ms. Warren is a hero to the political left for proposing a new bureaucracy to micromanage the services that banks can offer consumers. But she is also so politically controversial that no less a liberal lion than Connecticut Senator [[Chris Dodd]] has warned the White House that she probably isn't confirmable."<ref name=wsj>[http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052748703440604575495681843430198-lMyQjAxMTAwMDEwODExNDgyWj.html Elizabeth III - Obama to Senate: Stick that in your advice and consent clause.]</ref> | She was a lateral hire onto the faculty of the Harvard Law School in 1995 after having listed herself as a minority of Native American descent, despite her fair-skinned appearance and a lack of persuasive documentary evidence for her claim to minority status.<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-controversy-over-elizabeth-warrens-claimed-native-american-heritage/2012/09/27/d0b7f568-08a5-11e2-a10c-fa5a255a9258_blog.html?utm_term=.367f03c92d5d Detailed summary of Warren's claimed minority status]</ref> "The pride of Harvard Law School, Ms. Warren is a hero to the political left for proposing a new bureaucracy to micromanage the services that banks can offer consumers. But she is also so politically controversial that no less a liberal lion than Connecticut Senator [[Chris Dodd]] has warned the White House that she probably isn't confirmable."<ref name=wsj>[http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052748703440604575495681843430198-lMyQjAxMTAwMDEwODExNDgyWj.html Elizabeth III - Obama to Senate: Stick that in your advice and consent clause.]</ref> |