Myth-busting! What Kamala Harris Actually Did as a Prosecutor: #11 Corrupt Attorneys & Judicial Malfeasance

“Women and women of color deserve to have a seat at the table where decisions are made.” ~ Kamala Harris, Twitter, July 10, 2019

I’ve written a lot about Kamala Harris. I’m not totally committed to her candidacy, but I do identify with the distortion of her record and her strategies by people who are so brazenly, proudly ignorant of her logic and her process. This series is made up of individual sections of the larger piece I published recently articulating the ways that those like Lara Bazelon, writing for the New York Times, wildly misinterpreted and misrepresented Kamala Harris’s record in California to justify her own ignorance, bias and simply lazy reporting.

Corrupt Attorneys & Other Judicial Malfeasance

“Worst of all, though, is Ms. Harris’s record in wrongful conviction cases… In 2015, when the case reached the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco, Ms. Harris’s prosecutors defended the conviction. They pointed out that Mr. Gage, while forced to act as his own lawyer, had not properly raised the legal issue in the lower court, as the law required.” ~ Lara Bazelon

Evidently, Bazelon thinks this is her “coup de gras”: the cherry on the argument that…