Kamala Harris' antics during the nomination hearings indicate that the “radical” judges will nominate

Vice President Kamala Harris' past questions during judicial nomination hearings indicate her top priority in selecting justices is making sure they will advance left-wing goals, legal experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

While serving as a senator from California, Harris used nomination hearings to press Trumps judicial appointees with questions about climate change, abortion and their membership of faith-based groups. The sharp partisan slant of his questioning shows he values ​​judges who will score political points with voters more than those who will interpret the law and the Constitution as written, experts told the DCNF.

“If you look at the kind of questions he's asking, it's clear he doesn't understand the role of the court,” explained JCN President Carrie Severino.

During Judge Amy Coney Barrett's confirmation hearing, Harris he asked if Barrett believed that “climate change is happening and threatening the air we breathe and the water we drink?” At the hearing before Judge Brett Kavanaugh, Harris he asked if he could “think of any law that would give the government the power to make decisions about the male body?”

Brett Kavanaugh was appointed to the Supreme Court one year ago today. Here's a question I'm still thinking about from his confirmation hearing: Can you think of any law that would give the government the power to make decisions about the male body? pic.twitter.com/JG4d03SJag

— Vice President Kamala Harris (@VP) July 10, 2019

Harris too questioned Judge Brian Buescher of the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska about his membership in the Knights of Columbus, which he described as an “all-male society comprised primarily of Catholic men.”

“Did you know that the Knights of Columbus opposed a woman's right to choose when you joined the organization?” Harris he wrote in their written questions.

Severino told the DCNF that it is troubling that Harris considers membership in a “longstanding Catholic fraternal organization” to be effectively “disqualifying for judicial office.”

“This seems to play into a lot of the anti-Catholic rhetoric that has unfortunately been in vogue in some Democratic circles,” Severino said.

Thomas Jipping, a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation's Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, told the DCNF that Harris' questions “clearly reflect his view of a political judiciary in which judges make client-driven decisions results based on personal opinions”.

“The liberal view of the judiciary is political, and its goal is to appoint judges who reliably advance liberal political interests,” Jipping said. “Liberals believe that judges' personal views, rather than the law, drive their decisions, and so they push to discover candidates' personal views on particular issues.”

“Liberals are fostering a political vision of the judiciary that not only conflicts with the [designs] of the founders of the United States, but makes the “rule of law'' impossible,” he continued.

Barrett says “yes” when Kamala Harris asks if he accepts that COVID is infectious and that smoking causes cancer, but won't say whether climate change is a threat, calling it a “controversial matter of public debate.”

Harris: “You've made your point clear that you think it's a moot point” pic.twitter.com/lYpBcDHjc3

— CBS News (@CBSNews) October 14, 2020

Severino noted that Harris has generally used the nomination hearings “as an opportunity to grab the spotlight” while “trying to be as blatantly liberal” as possible. He said his “performative” behavior raises concerns that he will use judicial appointments in the same way: “to satisfy the dark money groups on the left who are constantly calling for more radical candidates.”

Harris was between the Democratic senators who pressured Kavanaugh allegations of sexual assault, than a Senate Judiciary Committee report he ultimately concluded that there was “no evidence” to corroborate. He also asked for one dismissal investigation into Kavanaugh in September 2019.

Harris' director of communications, Brian Fallon, previously worked as an executive director for Demand Justice, a progressive court reform group he co-founded that advocates packing up the Supreme Court. The organization spearhead the campaign to have Justice Stephen Breyer retire to allow Biden to appoint “the first black female Supreme Court justice” and united calls for an ethics investigation by Judge Clarence Thomas.

Demand the Supreme Court of Justice short list includes California Democratic Rep. Katie Porter, National Center for Lesbian Rights Legal Director Shannon Minter, and ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project Deputy Director Brigitte Amiri.

The list also includes the Deputy Attorney General of the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division, Kristen Clarkewho has brought charges against a number of pro-life activists under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE) and the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Xavier Becerra, who previously he continued Harris' prosecution of a pro-life reporter after taking his place as California attorney general in 2017.

Harris also supports President Joe Biden's recently announced announcement plans to reform the Supreme Court, which includes the imposition of a code of ethics, the promulgation of term limits for judges and the approval of a constitutional amendment that reverses the recent Supreme Court. decision on presidential immunity.

Harris individually interviewed Biden's last three nominees for the Supreme Court before Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson were selected, and Biden later said he was “lucky” to receive his advice. seconds on CNN.

As California Attorney General, she open an investigation into Exxon Mobil Corp. to determine whether he had misled investors about the risk posed by climate change. He also filed lawsuits against energy companies like Chevron i BP.

Harris too defended a law as California attorney general that would have required pro-life pregnancy centers to advertise abortions, though it was later struck down by the Supreme Court.

The Harris campaign did not respond to a request for comment.

(Featured Image Credit: Official White House Photo by Cameron Smith)

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