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Kamala Harris repeatedly and openly defied U.S. Supreme Court orders to reduce overcrowding in California prisons while serving as the state’s attorney general, according to legal documents reviewed by @theprospect. https://prospect.org/justice/how-kamala-harris-fought-to-keep-nonviolent-prisoners-locked-up/
Kamala Harris repeatedly and openly defied U.S. Supreme Court orders to reduce overcrowding in California prisons while serving as the state’s attorney general, according to legal documents reviewed by @theprospect. https://prospect.org/justice/how-kamala-harris-fought-to-keep-nonviolent-prisoners-locked-up/
Harris's office filed motions that were condemned by judges & legal experts as obstructionist, bad-faith, and nonsensical, at 1 point even suggesting that the Supreme Court lacked the jurisdiction to order a reduction in California’s prison population https://prospect.org/justice/how-kamala-harris-fought-to-keep-nonviolent-prisoners-locked-up/
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, and only didn't because it would have delayed the release of nonviolent inmates even further. https://prospect.org/justice/how-kamala-harris-fought-to-keep-nonviolent-prisoners-locked-up/
This was a well-known case at the time, with eerie parallels to the current defiance of Supreme Court rulings to reopen the DACA program. It went largely unnoticed during Harris's presidential run. https://prospect.org/justice/how-kamala-harris-fought-to-keep-nonviolent-prisoners-locked-up/
. @TheProspect obtained a June 2013 ruling from a 3-judge panel overseeing implementation of the decarceration program, condemning Harris's office's "tortured logic." Experts said the state's actions were "reminiscent of the Southern governors of the 1950s" https://prospect.org/justice/how-kamala-harris-fought-to-keep-nonviolent-prisoners-locked-up/
