Thread by @AnarchistMemeCo

GET TO KNOW KAMALA HARRIS MEGATHREAD
-credit of politijohn on tumblr

1: Pushed a law that forces schools to turn undocumented students over to ICE, separating them from their parents and violating human rights

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2: Laughed about putting parents in jail if their kids missed school, disproportionately harming single parent households, the poor, and families of color, including homeless mothers

m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5c…

3: Her office refused to address what the Supreme Court calls “unconstitutionally overcrowded” prisons specifically to perpetuate the exploitation of the mass incarcerated for slave labor

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4: Declined to prosecute Steven Mnuchin’s predatory lending and foreclosure fraud that broke the law “over a thousand” times and ruined the lives of thousands of homeowners, keeping him free to donate to her campaign and become Trump’s Treasury Secretary

theintercept.com/2017/01/03/tre…

5: Spent years jailing disproportionately black cannabis users & opposed taking cannabis off DEA’s list of most dangerous substances laughing at the idea of legalizing it multiple times, even as her Republican opponent ran to the left of her on the issue.

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6: Used a technicality to stop the release of a man wrongfully convicted of possession of a knife under the three-strikes law she supported. When civil rights groups got him released after 14 years she took him back to court for a crime he didn’t commit

jacobinmag.com/2017/08/kamala…

7: Opposed reforming California’s three-strikes law, which imposes life sentences for minor felonies and incarcerates black people at 12x the rate as white people, three different times, even while her Republican opponent supported reform

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8: Appealed a judge ruling that the death penalty was unconstitutional and won on a technicality, resulting in continued executions

motherjones.com/politics/2019/…

9: When evidence pointed towards a black defendant being framed by police, Harris avoided DNA testing to keep him on death row

motherjones.com/politics/2019/…

10: Protected serial child rapists by refusing to prosecute in the Catholic Church sex abuse scandal

theintercept.com/2019/06/09/kam…

11: Lied about her state’s solitary confinement to block a suit by inmates, claiming there was none in California when there were about 6,400 victims of the practice, which is considered torture

jacobinmag.com/2017/08/kamala…

12: Oversaw a state prosecutor falsifying a confession to get a life sentence and then destroyed the evidence, upheld a conviction secured by a prosecutor lying under oath, and oversaw the framing of another man

inlandpolitics.com/blog/2015/03/0…

13: Opposed legislation that would require independent investigation of fatal police shootings despite criticism from many civil rights advocates including California’s Legislative Black Caucus

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14: Opposed statewide implementation of police body cameras and ignored police brutality, multiple officers raping a teenager, and other officers sharing racist and homophobic messages, despite multiple requests from the public defender

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15: Refused to hand over the names of police whose testimonies led to convictions despite the officers’ arrest records and past misconduct

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16: Tried to deny a transgender inmate healthcare and endangered trans women by forcing them into mens prisons, leading to the rape and torture of at least one trans inmate

washingtonblade.com/2015/05/05/har…

17: Stood by silently as $730 million was spent on moving inmates to for-profit private prisons

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18: Voted two different times to block federal funding for abortions

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19: Following the foreclosure fraud scandal she negotiated a deal great for banks but bad for the ruined homeowners, becoming one of Wall Street’s favorite candidates to fundraise for

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20: Voted to give Trump increased military spending two different times.

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21: Supports Trump escalating war in Syria

thegrayzone.com/2019/05/24/bip…

22: Co-sponsored the bill that let Trump impose sanctions on Iran which violated the nuclear deal and lead to the currently rising tensions

congress.gov/bill/115th-con…

23: “Systematically violated defendants’ civil and constitutional rights” in crime lab scandal

washingtonpost.com/politics/crime…

24: Kept her Orange County DA office from being charged for running an unconstitutional jailhouse informant program they tried to cover up.

ocweekly.com/kamala-harris-…

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25: Oversaw San Francisco’s felony conviction rate rising from 52% to 67% in only 3 years

jacobinmag.com/2017/08/kamala…

26: As part of her tough on crime approach she assigned senior prosecutors to misdemeanors like graffiti and vandalism, tripling the number of cases brought to trial

https://twitter.com/walkerbragman/status/1146176227797032960

27: Mocks the activist call to “build more schools, less jails”

https://twitter.com/_waleedshahid/status/1090067362907340800

28: Supports collecting and keeping DNA from people even if they’ve not been charged with a crime

jacobinmag.com/2017/08/kamala…

29: Defended the discriminatory practice of cash bail in court as recently as June 2016

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30: Supports Israel’s right-wing government and cozies up to AIPAC, co-sponsored resolution against Obama in support of illegal settlements, does not support Palestinian rights, and calls BDS “anti-semitic”

theintercept.com/2018/03/07/kam…

31: Claimed to be unaware of sexual harassment and retaliation by her top aide over a 6 year span

latimes.com/politics/la-po…

32: Sponsored a bill allowing for prosecutors to seize profits before charges are even filed and opposed a bill that would reform civil asset forfeiture

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33: Defended a prison’s religious discrimination in hiring policy

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34: Opposed calls to tear down 700 miles of existing border wall/fence

foxnews.com/politics/kamal…

35: Fought to limit amount of land indigenous tribes could place in trust and tried to take reservation land away from a tribe just to keep them from evicting a non-indigenous man who had lived there without paying rent for 24 years

indianz.com/News/2017/10/1…

36: Is a latecomer in endorsing Medicare for All and already appears to be backtracking on multiple aspects of it

cnn.com/2019/01/29/pol…

37: Refused to review a case in which a pharmaceutical CEO killed his wife but made it look like a suicide after their son died under mysterious circumstances as well

phoenixnewtimes.com/news/californi…

38: Refused to prosecute PG&E for its massive gas pipeline explosion and now its consultants are running her campaign

nytimes.com/2019/02/23/us/…

39: Did not properly investigate the San Onofre scandal to protect her political allies.

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40: Refused to investigate Herbalife’s exploitation and fraud, receiving donations from people connected to the corporation

freebeacon.com/politics/kamal…

41: Her associate operated a fake police force but somehow all charges were dismissed

latimes.com/local/crime/la…

42: Refused to support AB5 to give gig workers like rideshare drivers basic employee rights (her brother-in-law & niece are high-up in Uber)

https://twitter.com/mlagos/status/1134860473583656960

43: Opposed legalization of sex work, endangered sex workers, and oversaw people being charged for prostitution without even agreeing to sex

laweekly.com/a-new-movement…

44: Endangered the public by supporting legislation that increased the homeless sex offender population 24x in 3 years, then appealed a court’s ruling that it was unconstitutional. Her Republican opponent ran to the left of her on this issue

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45: Accepted thousands of dollars of campaign funds from Donald and Ivanka Trump multiple times

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46: Accepts donations from prominent charter school pusher and billionaire Reed Hastings

desertsun.com/story/news/pol…

again, all credit to politijohn on tumblr for the research, links, and text of this thread. even more links/citations available on the original post.

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