The Allegations Presented Against Kamala Harris in a Presidential Race

This upcoming year there has been a changing circle of prominent Democrats entering the race for presidency. Figures like Joe Biden and Corey Booker, to Kirsten Gillibrand and Deval Patrick, and possibly Hillary Clinton are joining this merry go round. With Senator Kamala Harris’s joining the list of potential runners there has been a blazing discussion among Leftist and Liberals. The question revolves around how authentic Kamala Harris is with her self proclaimed affiliation as a progressivist.

As a senator Kamala Harris enters the presidential race, facing a shrewd examination over her records as an attorney before candidacy. In Lara Bazelon’s “Kamala Harris Was Not a ‘Progresive Prosecutor’” it is argued that by Kamal dismissing pleas of justice reform and cases of negligence, her omissions fall short of her title as a progressivist. An example of this is the criticism Kamal received in 2010 for withholding information. By preserving the truth of the 'sabotage' her worked received and the drugs stolen in the process, Kamal essentially allowed a crime to bypass the system. It's not only until a notice surfaced indicating that Ms. Harris' delegates neglected justice, resulting in a judge that 'condemned Ms. Harris’s indifference to the systematic violation of the defendants’ constitutional rights.' What this demonstrates is that given the situation Kamal is not the figure that heads the call of justice. This might be a specific form of targeting, having a past should not determine anything without question, still this incident is one of many where there has been light on Kamala Harris lacking progressive values. As a lawyer, Harris contradicted a bill requiring her office to look into shootings including cops and took steps to detain parents of truant children. This is a decision that would greatly impact those who are excessively poor and non-white. Harsh truancy laws only affect the parents of children who receive fines accumulating without any way to pay. This is are cases that oppose the progressive ideal to improve the lower class and provide reforms of justice.

This allegations can simply be a leftist way of making Kamal lose her footing just as she has entered her candidacy. Harris has an entangled history, yet we shouldn't dismiss her on the fragmented data we've seen. We can not preclude Harris just on the grounds that she doesn't feel Medicare for All is the best way in ensuring widespread right to social insurance. There are achievements from Kamala Harris as a lawyer where we see her dynamic side. During her residency as head prosecutor Harris denied capital punishment for a situation including the homicide of a cop. What's more, she began an effective program that offered first-time wrongdoers an opportunity to have their charges expelled on the off chance that they “completed a rigorous vocational training.” In the New York Times, Stephen Crowley safeguards the congresspersons record by clarifying how her program for first time guilty parties didn’t 'just mean helping those who were formerly incarcerated. It diverted young people who were largely arrested for crack offenses into jobs, substance abuse treatment and apprenticeship programs, and got them housing and child care.