The article mentions and switches between “lawyers for the state said California” and “lawyers from then-California Attorney General Kamala Harris’ office”, which sounds like it’s intentionally conflating Harris’s direct involvement
The article says the lawyers claims were made on Kamala’s behalf. Ultimately she remains responsible for her underlings actions. Especially when she only corrects it when someone points it out during her campaign.
Harris, for her part, told BuzzFeed News two months after the arguments were made on her behalf, that she was “shocked” by the argument, telling the publication she was looking into it.
“As she said at the time, Senator Harris was shocked and troubled by the use of this argument. She looked into it and directed the department’s attorneys not to make that argument again,” said spokesman Ian Sams. “Her office, on behalf of the state corrections’ department, then came to the table with the plaintiffs’ representatives to negotiate an agreement, which the court subsequently approved, that led to an expansion of the 2-for-1 credits.”
A federal three-judge panel ordered both sides to confer about the plaintiffs’ demands, and the state agreed to extend the 2-for-1 credits to all eligible minimum security prisoners.
… “As she said at the time, Senator Harris was shocked and troubled by the use of this argument… Her office, on behalf of the state corrections’ department, then came to the table with the plaintiffs’ representatives to negotiate an agreement, which the court subsequently approved, that led to an expansion of the 2-for-1 credits.”
Citations needed. Was she actually shocked? Or was she forced to act by federal judges? Because it really sounds like federal judges.
Did you keep reading from there? Did you know she was a prosecutor putting people in cages for money?
“As far as I know, she did very little if anything to improve the criminal justice system when she was attorney general… The way I look at it is, she was really late to the party and more importantly when she had the authority to do something as attorney general she was absent… I’m very skeptical of her views of criminal justice at this point, she basically carried on the policies of her predecessor for the most part in battling us on getting the prison population down and anything else that the government wanted to do to prevent prison conditions from improving.”
"Time after time, when progressives urged her to embrace criminal justice reforms as a district attorney and then the state’s attorney general, Ms. Harris opposed them or stayed silent,” Lara Bazelon, a law professor and the former director of the Loyola Law School Project for the Innocent in Los Angeles, wrote in a blistering op-ed in The New York Times a week before Harris formally launched her campaign.
Harris, for her part, told BuzzFeed News two months after the arguments were made on her behalf, that she was “shocked” by the argument, telling the publication she was looking into it.
Asked about the case this week, Harris’s presidential campaign said she took action.
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The incident is just a small part of Harris’s long career as a prosecutor, which has drawn scrutiny from Democrats and activists who describe her as a latecomer to the social justice movement.
“As far as I know, she did very little if anything to improve the criminal justice system when she was attorney general,” Specter said.
“The way I look at it is, she was really late to the party and more importantly when she had the authority to do something as attorney general she was absent,” he said. “I’m very skeptical of her views of criminal justice at this point, she basically carried on the policies of her predecessor for the most part in battling us on getting the prison population down and anything else that the government wanted to do to prevent prison conditions from improving.”
Clean up the record while campaigning. Sweep it all under the rug.
Source: 2019 - Kamala Harris’ A.G. Office Tried to Keep Inmates Locked Up for Cheap Labor
The article mentions and switches between “lawyers for the state said California” and “lawyers from then-California Attorney General Kamala Harris’ office”, which sounds like it’s intentionally conflating Harris’s direct involvement
The article says the lawyers claims were made on Kamala’s behalf. Ultimately she remains responsible for her underlings actions. Especially when she only corrects it when someone points it out during her campaign.
“As she said at the time, Senator Harris was shocked and troubled by the use of this argument. She looked into it and directed the department’s attorneys not to make that argument again,” said spokesman Ian Sams. “Her office, on behalf of the state corrections’ department, then came to the table with the plaintiffs’ representatives to negotiate an agreement, which the court subsequently approved, that led to an expansion of the 2-for-1 credits.”
Citations needed. Was she actually shocked? Or was she forced to act by federal judges? Because it really sounds like federal judges.
Did you keep reading from there? Did you know she was a prosecutor putting people in cages for money?
Directly before it:
Directly after it:
Clean up the record while campaigning. Sweep it all under the rug.
Shhh you’re ruining the narrative.