Kamala Harris built her career on injusticehttps://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/kamala-harris-built-her-career-on-injusticeHarris initially ran as a progressive prosecutor, even promising to never seek the death penalty. But once in office, she governed quite differently. She challenged the ruling of a judge who found the state’s death penalty unconstitutional (while she declined to defend other statutes). She advocated for harsher penalties and sought aggressive sentences.
She didn’t just proceed over violent cases with an iron fist. After she was elected, reviews of drug cases jumped 25%. She worked to block some drug offenders from successful diversion programs, forcing excessively punitive responses. In later years, she was caught laughing about her own prior marijuana usage.
In between advocating for harsher penalties (including some truly bonkers repercussions for truancy), privacy violations such as familial DNA searches, and civil asset forfeiture, Harris even found time to block new DNA evidence from being tested for a potentially innocent death-row inmate, Kevin Cooper.
Kammy may have "challenged the ruling of a judge who found the state’s death penalty unconstitutional", but when she was DA of SF she refused to seek the death penalty in a case where the murder victim was an SF police officer.
