Analysis: Kamala Harris, seeking to change her narrative, proposes relief for public defenders
after announcing his office would be refusing felony cases: “A lawyer poorly resourced can cause irreparable harm to a client,” Bunton told Anderson Cooper at the time.
Bunton told Power Up. “I think there needs to be something like this, at least as a first effort to get at the problems that we have with equity and real problems we have structurally in how criminal defense is conducted in our system.” But Inimai Chettiar, the director of the Brennan Center's Justice Program, told us that Harris has been singled out on this issue, arguing the whole field of 2020 Democrats supported tough-on-crime policies “that were not great and now all [of those Democrats] have shifted to try to reduce the prison population.”“To me, almost all of them have the same track record — they weren’t good on the issue and then they became good on the issue.
Observers think the proposal will help Harris stand out from 20-something pack of presidential candidates and that it will highlight more progressive parts of her record, which includes enacting the first statewide implicit bias and procedural justice training program in the country.
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