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Kamala Harris , a leading candidate to be Joe Biden’s running mate, repeatedly and openly defied U.S. Supreme Court orders to reduce overcrowding in California prisons while serving as attorney general.
The intransigence of this legal work resulted in the presiding judges in the case giving serious consideration to holding the state in contempt of court.
Kamala Harris has been criticized on multiple occasions for fighting to keep people, including innocent ones, in prison.
By April 2013 , just two months from the initial deadline given in that Supreme Court decision, California still had 9,636 prisoners more than the court-imposed ceiling.
Harris ’s office launched into a campaign of all-out obstruction, refusing to answer why they could not simply release low-risk, nonviolent inmates.
Julian Zelizer: Harris ' role in blocking the Supreme Court’s prison reduction order is deeply troubling on multiple counts.
He says her work on that case alone would likely disqualify her from a shot at a federal bench or Supreme Court appointment.
Zelizer says elevating Harris would send a dubious message to Joe Biden's VP pick.
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