And calling for Sen. Franken to resign show she lacks judgement to be President.

Yes, I'm sure she put away a lot of bad people, as prosecutor's are tasked with doing. But she didn't answer what has changed or what changed her mind about those shitty policies that Noah mentioned or if she feels any remorse over that. He wasn't asking if she felt remorse over putting away murderers or rapists, but whether she had any remorse over the other shitty, racist policies.

That whole aspect of her past isn't a deal breaker for me (if at this point there are any deal breakers considering what we are up against), although it is a point of concern. But I do think she probably needs to come up with a better response to that general question than the straw man argument of also having put away a lot of bad people.

Even if that response was that she didn't always agree with the law but that it was her job to enforce and prosecute (even if that answer is not entirely true given a prosecutor's discretion), I think it would be better than this answer.

But then again that is the advantage to starting this process early and working through the kinks, so......good luck to her.

The piece gives a 360 view of Harris, her prosecutorial history and the criticisms swirling around that period, her present stance on justice reform and her Senate work to date. Anyone with an extensive work history will be put under the microscope but it seems to me that Harris is someone who has worked inside the system and made reform inroads to varying degrees in a time when 'crack-downs' were a thing. Personally, I'm more interested where she is now. I think her answer to Trevor Noah shows pragmatism (not a dirty word), grit and honesty.

For me, she comes across as a tough, smart woman who has had to do a lot of balancing acts. Which is what politics requires if you're going to rise to the upper echelons of power. I'm definitely keeping my eye on her because she has the mark of a true winner.

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/1/23/18184192/kamala-harris-president-campaign-criminal-justice-record

This will surely come up in the debates, and she should prepare a better answer than this one.

As a person that spent way too much time on the wrong side of steel bars in my younger days (blowing my cover), I would already have a very difficult time voting in a primary for a former DA, and she just made it more difficult by choosing the standard politician's non-answer. Just about what I would have expected from a Senator (another strike against her IMO) as I'm not a big fan of the Senate either.

I have a hard time believing that her idea of criminal justice reform comes anywhere near to mine.

Keeping him in prison because she said he had not presented proof that he was innocent quickly enough. At least according to the innocence project.

http://articles.latimes.com/2012/aug/21/local/la-me-innocent-20120821