Lara Bazelon Tweet on Joe Biden

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57. you must be kidding

...her ONE article has been plastered all over the internet like wall paper for months. It's been used by Kamala foes from way left of the spectrum to the way right, without any political fruition other than a whispering game by people who don't seem to care what happened the victims of crime or those accused, beyond a political cudgel.

Pro tips:

1)Prosecutors are tasked with enforcing laws, not legislating them out of, say, the Judiciary Committee in 1994.

2) These charges have been raised and answered by Kamala Harris over successive elections (in the state which we assume cares the most), and she hasn't lost a one.

3) Even where then-AG Harris was not responsible for charges and criticism, she always stepped up and took responsibility.

Remember, Kamala Harris' time as DA and AG is marked by more than the criticisms by this ONE professor in this ONE article. In fact, you'd be hard-pressed to find another critique of Kamala Harris' time as AG that doesn't reference and rely on this one internet fave.

..who prosecuted that historic mortgage settlement case that helped more than 84,000 California families?

Who prosecuted and won the $1.1 billion settlement against the for-profit (now defunct) Corinthian Colleges for predatory and unlawful practices?

Who made it their major priority as AG, prosecuting transnational gangs known for trafficking drugs, firearms, and humans? Her office led a groundbreaking study on the impacts of transnational criminal organizations and human trafficking in California.

Progressive prosecutors do this:

..as DA from 2004 to 2011, Harris opposed both Proposition 22 and Proposition 8, which limited marriage to one man and one woman. Though they passed in 2000 and 2008, respectively, both were struck down while she was in office. As San Francisco DA, Harris also created a Hate Crimes Unit aimed at prosecuting hate crimes committed against LGBTQ teens in school.

Harris’s early support of marriage equality in California directly laid the legal groundwork for the US Supreme Court’s decision in 2012 that same-sex couples have the right to marry. The Court cited California’s success in striking down Prop 8 in its opinion. Within hours of the decision, plaintiffs to the Supreme Court case Kris Perry and Sandy Stier became the first gay couple to wed in San Francisco, and Harris officiated their wedding.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/6/16/15808396/kamala-harris-democrat-rising-star-interrupted

This thread was evidently posted as an object lesson. Kamala Harris and her supporters can handle these worn-out criticisms from this one source; none of this is new.

I think it may be a surprise for some that she didn't restrict her hyperbole to Kamala Harris.