{"id":2310050,"date":"2024-07-27T06:29:01","date_gmt":"2024-07-27T10:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2310050"},"modified":"2024-07-27T06:33:05","modified_gmt":"2024-07-27T10:33:05","slug":"top-harris-aide-backed-defund-police-and-court-packing-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-harris-aide-backed-defund-police-and-court-packing-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Harris aide backed \u2018defund police\u2019 and court-packing &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftop-harris-aide-backed-defund-police-and-court-packing-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2310050&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-defector-emails-pipeline-to-obama-admin-seen-as-currency\/\" title=\"Hunter Biden Defector Emails: &#039;Pipeline&#039; to Obama Admin Seen as &#039;Currency&#039;\">top aide<\/a> to Vice\u200c President Kamala Harris, Brian Fallon, has come under scrutiny for his past support of the &#8220;defund the police&#8221; movement and efforts to expand the Supreme Court. Previously the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ian-sams-former-kamala-aide-and-grillary-clinton-apron-model-lands-new-gig-as-bidens-covid-spox\/\" title=\"Ian Sams, Former Kamala Aide and \u2018Grillary Clinton\u2019 Apron Model, Lands New Gig as Biden\u2019s COVID Spox\">national press secretary<\/a> \u2063for Hillary \u2063Clinton&#8217;s 2016 presidential campaign,\u2063 Fallon has joined Harris&#8217;s team as her communications director as she prepares to likely run against Donald\u200d Trump in the\u200b upcoming 2024 election.<\/p>\n<p>Fallon&#8217;s involvement with Demand Justice, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/swiss-billionaire-bankrolling-dark-money-group-pushing-for-biden-climate-initiative\/\" title=\"Swiss Billionaire Bankrolling Dark Money Group Pushing for Biden Climate Initiative\">progressive dark money group<\/a> he helped \u200cfound,\u200c has raised concerns, particularly regarding its aim to significantly transform the federal judiciary. \u2062This\u2062 organization has gained attention for its campaign against Supreme Court Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh during their confirmation hearings, as well as for backing leftist judicial nominees like Ketanji Brown Jackson.<\/p>\n<p>As crime rates have \u200dincreased in several U.S. cities,\u200d Democrats, including Harris, have tried to distance themselves from the &#8220;defund the police&#8221; slogan, which has become a point of contention for Republicans who label Harris as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/61-indicted-in-georgia-on-racketeering-charges-linked-to-stop-cop-city\/\" title=\"61 individuals in Georgia have been indicted on racketeering charges connected to &#039;Stop Cop City&#039;.\">anti-law \u2062enforcement<\/a>.\u2064 Fallon\u2019s previous remarks on Supreme Court &#8220;leaks&#8221; and the controversial positions he and\u2062 Harris have taken are likely \u2063to be used\u200d as political\u200d ammunition in the election.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Top Harris aide backed &lsquo;defund police&rsquo; and court-packing<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1714540\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/121377\/democratic-operative-behind-dark-money-court-packing-group-to-step-down\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>A top aide<\/a> to Vice President Kamala Harris, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/2024-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>2024<\/a> presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, supported the &ldquo;defund police&rdquo; movement and progressive efforts to pack the Supreme Court with more justices.<\/p>\n<p>Brian Fallon, the former national press secretary for Hillary Clinton&rsquo;s failed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/2016-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>2016<\/a> presidential campaign, is now in a key staffer position as Harris appears likely to secure the nomination this year to face former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Donald Trump<\/a> in November. In January, Fallon took a job as communications director for Harris after an almost six-year stint as executive director of Demand Justice, a left-wing dark money group aiming to upend the federal judiciary radically.<\/p>\n<p>Fallon&rsquo;s ties to Demand Justice and 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/gekaminsky\/status\/1816615077509771504\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>support<\/a> for defunding police after George Floyd&rsquo;s death sparked riots across the United States will likely become talking points for Republicans &mdash; who are seeking to frame Harris as anti-law-and-order. On Friday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/07\/26\/politics\/kfile-kamala-harris-praised-defund-the-police-movement-in-june-2020\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>CNN<\/a> reported that Harris also, in June 2020, expressed support for the defund the police movement. Democrats have sought to distance themselves from the movement after crime rose in many cities.<\/p>\n<p>Fallon, who also worked as a spokesman between 2013 and 2015 for then-Attorney General Eric Holder, founded Demand Justice in 2018. The progressive organization, which is registered under a section of the IRS code, 501(c)(4), that allows it to shield its donors from the IRS, used to be a project of Sixteen Thirty Fund. The latter entity is one of the most influential Democratic dark money groups in the U.S. under the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/gekaminsky\/status\/1777669020621082643\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Arabella Advisors<\/a> consultancy network.<\/p>\n<p>Demand Justice, which split off from Sixteen Thirty Fund in 2021, was notably behind advertising attacks on Supreme Court Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh during their confirmation processes. Demand Justice also spent large sums supporting President Joe Biden&rsquo;s nomination of left-wing Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, records show.<\/p>\n<p>Demand Justice is behind ad <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/demand-justice-supreme-court-expansion_n_61390131e4b0df9fe27ecf76\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>campaigns<\/a> aiming to gin up support for adding more seats to the Supreme Court, a proposal that Republicans have long argued would politicize the federal judiciary and lead to an unfair imbalance of power in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Carrie Severino, president of the conservative Judicial Crisis Network, posted an <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JCNSeverino\/status\/1816867324466758086\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>image<\/a> on X on Friday of a Fallon tweet from 2022 praising Supreme Court &ldquo;leaks.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Fallon&rsquo;s post came in the wake of a draft opinion that overturned <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em> being leaked.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;SCOTUS leaks are good,&rdquo; Fallon said in May 2022. &ldquo;Elite lawyers on both the left and right treating the Court as precious all these years have just been giving cover to an institution that is wholly accountable. Rip the veil off.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#128680;Kamala Harris&#8217;s communications director called for more leaks at the Supreme Court in the wake of the Dobbs draft opinion being leaked.<\/p>\n<p>That leak helped lead to an assassination plot against Justice Kavanaugh a month later. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lqqpQaKmPq\">pic.twitter.com\/lqqpQaKmPq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Carrie Severino (@JCNSeverino) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JCNSeverino\/status\/1816867324466758086?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 26, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">To conservative lawyers, including Mike Davis, the public is right to ask questions as to whether Harris supports the court policies Fallon&rsquo;s group has sought to establish. <\/p>\n<p>Demand Justice has a &ldquo;Supreme Court shortlist&rdquo; on its website for progressive officials that the group argues would make good justices. The list includes Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner, Assistant U.S. Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division Kristen Clarke, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, and others.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&ldquo;Until she says otherwise, we can only assume Kamala shares Brian&rsquo;s radical wish list,&rdquo; Davis, who runs the Article III Project, told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Harris campaign did not return a request for comment. <\/p>\n<p>According to a <em>RealClearPolitics <\/em>polling average, Trump leads Harris 47.9% to 46% nationally.<\/p>\n<p> <script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1714540\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1714540\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A significant role on Harris&#8217;s team as she is expected to secure the Democratic nomination this year to challenge former President Donald Trump in November. In January, Fallon became Harris&#8217;s communications director after nearly six years leading Demand Justice, a left-leaning organization focused on reforming the federal judiciary. His connections to Demand Justice and his previous support for defunding the police following George Floyd\u2019s death are likely to be used by Republicans to portray Harris as anti-law enforcement. CNN reported that Harris also expressed her support for the defund police movement in June 2020. As crime rates have increased in various cities, Democrats have attempted to distance themselves from this movement. Fallon previously served as a spokesman for then-Attorney General Eric Holder from 2013 to 2015 and founded Demand Justice in 2018. This progressive group operates under a section of IRS code that allows it to keep its donors anonymous and was initially part of the Sixteen Thirty Fund, a prominent Democratic dark money organization linked with Arabella Advisors. Demand Justice has been involved in campaigns against Supreme Court Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh during their confirmations and supported President Joe Biden\u2019s nomination of leftist Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. The organization advocates for expanding the Supreme Court, which Republicans argue would politicize it further and disrupt power balance within the government.<\/p>\n<p>Carrie Severino, president of the conservative Judicial Crisis Network, shared an image on X (formerly Twitter) showing Fallon praising leaks from the Supreme Court following a draft opinion that overturned Roe v. Wade being leaked; he stated that such leaks were beneficial because they exposed accountability issues within the court system.<\/p>\n<p>Conservative legal experts like Mike Davis question whether Kamala Harris endorses Fallon&#8217;s radical proposals since Demand Justice maintains a &#8220;Supreme Court shortlist&#8221; featuring potential progressive justices including Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner and Assistant U.S. Attorney General Kristen Clarke among others.<\/p>\n<p>Davis remarked that until proven otherwise, it&#8217;s reasonable to assume Kamala shares Fallon&#8217;s extreme views. The Harris campaign did not respond when asked for comments regarding these matters.<\/p>\n<p>Current polling averages indicate Trump leads Harris nationally by approximately 1.9%<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":381,"featured_media":2310054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Kamala-Harris-Brian-Fallon-2024-scaled-1024x683.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[36440,36439,36438,5894,32076],"class_list":["post-2310050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-court-packing","tag-defund-police","tag-harris-aide","tag-politics","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Kamala-Harris-Brian-Fallon-2024-scaled-1024x683.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2310050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/381"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2310050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2310050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2310054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2310050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2310050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2310050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}