.@SenKamalaHarris’ questioning of Brett Kavanaugh is a reminder of her vicious, rotten career in law enforcement washex.am/2NOQiya
For some on the Left, the Democratic senator’s weird and ambiguous questions about whether the nominee had discussed special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation with anyone employed by the law firm founded by Trump's personal attorney, constituted a “ yas queen” moment”
“But I don’t see the California lawmaker’s interaction with Kavanaugh as particularly praiseworthy. Just the opposite, actually.”
”Harris’ duplicitous and misleading grilling of the nominee serves as a reminder that she has a long history of being a sneaky, self-serving, anti-liberty law enforcement official.”
“This wasn’t some neutral attempt by a lawmaker to uncover the truth. This isn't even a supposedly courageous moment of political resistance. This is Harris doing the good cop/bad cop routine, except there's no good cop in this story.”
“Harris begins with a vague, leading question that can be misinterpreted in any number of ways. The senator then belittles the witness by claiming the question isn’t complicated.”
”She then offers to clarify the question, all the while pretending to be precise, and then restates her original, confusing line of inquiry almost verbatim.”
“This sort of interrogation is designed to trick a scared and ill-informed suspect into saying something that can later be twisted and used against him by the prosecution. In many cases, this tactic works.”
”But Kavanaugh was smart enough to insist on precise language, much to Harris’ obvious chagrin. Unfortunately, a lot of the people who get caught up in the criminal justice system don't have Kavanaugh's background or presence of mind.”
“These people often find themselves on the losing end of the underhanded word games preferred by prosecutors like Harris.”
“All of this is to say: Wednesday’s interaction between Harris and Kavanaugh reminds me of the senator's shameful record when she served as the district attorney of San Francisco and as California’s attorney general.”
“In that position, she was a petty tyrant who regularly advocated for absurdly harsh penalties, all while protecting her corrupt friends in government. She was a cheerleader for civil asset forfeiture.”
“She championed an anti-truancy law that called for a $2,000 fine and jail time for the parents (by 2012, two mothers were imprisoned in California under this law).”
“She even opposed attempts to do away with the state’s draconian three-strikes law, which called for life sentences for a third “strike” even if it was only a minor felony.”
“If you don’t believe me when I say Harris is the “bad cop,” you can read about it for yourself in the New York Times, National Review, Reason magazine, or even the socialist quarterly magazine Jacobin.”
“If you don’t believe me when I say Harris is the “bad cop,” you can read about it for yourself in the New York Times, National Review, Reason magazine, or even the socialist quarterly magazine Jacobin.”
(This write-up of Harris' history as a brutal, self-serving, and conniving official is especially damning)
