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I’m a civil rights attorney, here’s the truth about Kamala Harris’s appalling record
by Harmeet K. Dhillon, opinion contributor - 07/29/24 11:30 AM ET
Vice President Kamala Harris claimed the mantle of a civil rights champion as part of her presidential campaign origin fable. But her record tells a darker tale. At every step of her career, Harris has proven that the most dangerous place for a constitutional norm to be is standing between Harris and her political ambitions.
Let’s start with her time as San Francisco district attorney, a position she won by running against her boss, a progressive D.A., by claiming to be a tough-on-crime prosecutor. Having fooled the voting public and secured the position, she immediately began to tack left, declaring four months into the job that she would refuse to seek the death penalty against the murderer of policeman Isaac Espinoza, who was 29, with a young family when he was gunned down in cold blood.
Although she likes to portray herself as the “top cop” of California, cops despised her from that moment on. Harris received the dishonor of being named the “most progressive DA” in California – in other words, Kamala Harris was the most far-left prosecutor in the most liberal state. Harris’ sanctuary city policies enabled Edwin Ramos, for example, to murder a father and his two sons.
As D.A., Harris was the worst of both worlds: A soft-on-crime progressive prosecutor who failed to keep her city safe, and who looked the other way when it came to ethics and public integrity. In 2010, Harris’s lead drug prosecutor alerted supervisors of evidence that one of their top technicians was an unreliable witness, including a prior criminal conviction.
Despite a binding Supreme Court case, Brady v. Maryland, mandating prosecutors turn over such information to the defense, Harris’s office concealed it. Once discovered, this flagrant constitutional violation led to the dismissal of over 600 drug cases.
Narrowly elected to attorney general in 2010, Harris proceeded to double down on ignoring constitutional rights when expedient.
In 2011, the Supreme Court ordered California to reduce its inmate population because of prison overcrowding. In 2015, after four years and two separate court orders mandating action, California was still non-compliant. During litigation leading to the second order, Harris’s deputies argued that if the state was forced to release these inmates early, prisons would lose a crucial part of its captive labor force because the prisoners earned wages between 8 and 37 cents per hour.
They reasoned that implementing the federal court’s proposed order would “severely impact fire camp participation—a dangerous outcome while California is in the middle of a difficult fire season and severe drought.”
Legal scholars and commentators were astounded. Erwin Chemerinsky, now dean of UC Berkeley Law School, compared Harris’ defiance of federal court mandates to 1950s southern governors ignoring desegregation orders. The Atlantic wrote that Harris’ filings were “unworthy of a first-year associate, much less the chief lawyer of our nation’s most populous state.”
When confronted with these critiques, Harris claimed she was shocked by her office’s arguments. She either had no clue what was happening in the biggest civil rights case her office was handling, or she simply lied and threw her deputies under the bus to distance herself from a backlash. Incompetent, or mendacious?
In the case of my client, Trilochan Singh Oberoi, an observant Sikh with a military background who sought a job as a prison guard but was denied on religious grounds, Harris caused her office to filibuster for four years. She argued against the applicability of well-settled religious liberty norms, before finally caving in and settling the case for attorney fees, back pay and a job after a national coalition of civil rights groups across the political spectrum joined hands to demand justice.
In doing so, the court reaffirmed its landmark decision in NAACP v. Alabama that the First Amendment protects the civil right of private association. Harris was unfazed, having already moved on.
During her ill-fated 2019 presidential campaign, Harris continued to demonstrate flippant disregard for the Constitution. At a townhall, she stated that if elected, she would “give the United States Congress 100 days to get their act together and” pass gun control legislation. “And if they fail to do it, then” she would “take executive action.” That is, if the legislative branch failed to enact policies she wanted, she would usurp its Constitutional authority and enact such policies by fiat, Constitution be damned.
Kamala Harris was no defender of civil rights when she exercised executive power as a district attorney and state attorney general. As president, Harris has already promised to ignore the Constitutional separation of powers and enact whatever policies she damn well pleases, just as she ignored Brady, Title VII, prisoner’s rights and due process. She’s shown us who she is all along, and voters should pay heed.
Harmeet K. Dhillon is DLG founder and managing partner and Trump campaign and personal Trump lawyer.
If this is your idea of civil rights, I suppose? From wiki wiki wiki:
Having actually lived back then, I can tell you not everything about the 1950s was horrible. You could drink cool mountain fresh water right out of the creeks and streams in the Sierra Nevada mountains. Do that today and your almost 100% guaranteed to get giardia. The population of the U.S. was about 40% of what it is today and world population was about 1/3 what it is today. More people than not felt safe to leave their house unlocked (up until about 1962, we only locked the house when we went on vacation for more than a day trip). People were generally more courteous. Concerts, movies, etc. were were so affordable, almost anyone could afford to go out and not feel the pinch. I could go on and on.
If we could combine those best aspects of the 1950's with the better aspects of today society, now that would be amazing.
Sure, I get that. Do you think invoking that era the way the right has these last 10 years isn’t also a major dog whistle?
I think the far right is full of shit for wanting us to go back to those aspects of the 50s! May it never be!
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man [or woman] who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
I expect a lot of these types of endorsements to pop up as the election approaches. I am going to predict that GWB will endorse Harris as well.
Since 2014, I have had the honor of being mayor of Mesa, the nation’s 36th-largest city and one of the most conservative. Under Trump, American cities didn’t get the support they deserved. Infrastructure week was made into a joke. But under the Biden-Harris administration, Mesa has seen historic federal funding for the Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport, along with investments to make sure our streets and public transit systems benefit from modern technology.
Remember the Thomas Nine !! (10/02/2018)
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Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
Let me see here, Harris, you and Biden have been in office for 3 1/2 years, yet you haven't done ANY of these things. Why not? And why wait until "day one"? DO IT NOW!
Let me see here, Harris, you and Biden have been in office for 3 1/2 years, yet you haven't done ANY of these things. Why not? And why wait until "day one"? DO IT NOW!
has Mexico paid for the wall yet? ACA been replaced and repealed?
Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
Let me see here, Harris, you and Biden have been in office for 3 1/2 years, yet you haven't done ANY of these things. Why not? And why wait until "day one"? DO IT NOW!
has Mexico paid for the wall yet? ACA been replaced and repealed?
Let me see here, Harris, you and Biden have been in office for 3 1/2 years, yet you haven't done ANY of these things. Why not? And why wait until "day one"? DO IT NOW!
has Mexico paid for the wall yet? ACA been replaced and repealed?
Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
Let me see here, Harris, you and Biden have been in office for 3 1/2 years, yet you haven't done ANY of these things. Why not? And why wait until "day one"? DO IT NOW!
has Mexico paid for the wall yet? ACA been replaced and repealed?
No, but infrastructure week has started.
oh right. that thing Biden got done.
And I’m watching the Olympics on that 120” tv manufactured at that FoxxCON plant.
Yeah it's odd...people are proud of that shit. Another reason why the outrage over the Olympics opening ceremony is so hilarious to me. The "fuck your feelings" party got their feelings hurt.
red hat = white hood
red hat = white hood I hate that. I can agree with some of the things Republicans do without being associated as a member of the clan...
Have you considered that if the MAGA cult wasn’t invoking pre-Civil Rights Act America, the comparison wouldn’t apply?
Them wanting to turn back the clock to the 50's way of living?
That’s another, much nicer way of saying they want to turn the clock back to pre-civil rights act America, sure. Idk why one would extend the benefit of the doubt to trump & his cult after all we’ve seen though.
I get the wanting the 50's back thing. If you could make it where I worked at a convenience store and could afford a house, car and wife sign me up!
They basically want to go back to the Readers Digest version of American. Stay at home wife, dinner ready as soon as Daddy gets home from a hard day's works. Mix him up a fucking Manhattan before dinner, no wire hangers, etc.
My wondering if that's what really happened back then? It was make believe right? I don't know anyone to ask, lol.
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During the coronavirus pandemic, she filed numerous unsuccessful lawsuits to halt the implementation of stay-at-home-orders and other restrictions. She criticized face masksrequirements, called for the re-opening of the economy, and opposed mail in voting.[7][8][9]
In the January 2023 election, Dhillon unsuccessfully challenged incumbent Ronna McDaniel as chairperson of the Republican National Committee.
Maybe her loyalty is to Modi?
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My bad, I thought it was a rhetorical question.
you know, to further demonstrate that you are in a cult.
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
I think the far right is full of shit for wanting us to go back to those aspects of the 50s! May it never be!
https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/2024/07/29/mesa-mayor-republican-vote-kamala-harris/74583703007/
I expect a lot of these types of endorsements to pop up as the election approaches. I am going to predict that GWB will endorse Harris as well.
But under the Biden-Harris administration, Mesa has seen historic federal funding for the Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport, along with investments to make sure our streets and public transit systems benefit from modern technology.
1998: Noblesville; 2003: Noblesville; 2009: EV Nashville, Chicago, Chicago
2010: St Louis, Columbus, Noblesville; 2011: EV Chicago, East Troy, East Troy
2013: London ON, Wrigley; 2014: Cincy, St Louis, Moline (NO CODE)
2016: Lexington, Wrigley #1; 2018: Wrigley, Wrigley, Boston, Boston
2020: Oakland, Oakland: 2021: EV Ohana, Ohana, Ohana, Ohana
2022: Oakland, Oakland, Nashville, Louisville; 2023: Chicago, Chicago, Noblesville
2024: Noblesville, Wrigley, Wrigley, Ohana, Ohana
Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C-EKj5xsCL3/?igsh=eDEwbWxteHJianc1
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So great to see this. You can feel it!
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
Let me see here, Harris, you and Biden have been in office for 3 1/2 years, yet you haven't done ANY of these things. Why not?
And why wait until "day one"? DO IT NOW!
has Mexico paid for the wall yet? ACA been replaced and repealed?
Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
Libtardaplorable©. And proud of it.
Brilliantati©
Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
Libtardaplorable©. And proud of it.
Brilliantati©
Hey sheckels 🍊🤡 wishes he could get crowds like this!