Vice President Kamala Harris blasted the Supreme Court, voiced concern about the status of U.S. democracy and called for a pathway to citizenship for millions of immigrants in a wide-ranging interview aired Sunday.
The veep said the highest court in the land has become an “activist court,” slamming its June ruling that overturned the Roe v. Wade decision guaranteeing a right to abortion.
“We had an established right for almost a half a century, which is the right of women to make decisions about their own body as an extension of what we have decided to be the privacy rights to which all people are entitled,” Harris told NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “And this court took that constitutional right away.
“That causes me great concern about the integrity of the court overall,” she added.
Harris was noncommittal on specific legislative proposals to codify the right to abortion, saying, “I’d have to read it and see.”
But she said if upcoming midterm elections see Democrats gain two seats in the Senate, which is currently divided 50-50, that will enable them to overcome potential Republican filibusters and pass long-stalled priorities on abortion and voting rights.
“I cannot wait to cast the deciding vote to break the filibuster on voting rights and reproductive rights. I cannot wait,” Harris said.
The Democrat-controlled House passed the Freedom to Vote Act in August 2021 and the Women’s Health Protection Act in September of that year. But the threat of a Republican filibuster has blocked the bills in the Senate. To change filibuster rules, Dems need 51 votes, but two of the members of their party have balked.
Along with criticizing the Supreme Court, which conservatives dominate 6-3, Harris sounded the alarm about democracy in the U.S.
“I think it is very dangerous, and I think it is very harmful. And it makes us weaker,” she said while discussing elected officials and candidates who falsely contend the 2020 election was stolen from former President Donald Trump.
“Through the process of what we’ve been through, we’re starting to allow people to call into question our commitment to [democratic] principles,” she continued. “And that’s a shame.”
Harris also discussed the influx of immigrants crossing from the southern border since Trump left office. The U.S. is expected to see more than 2 million border crossings this year.
“There are still a lot of problems that we are trying to fix given the deterioration that happened over the last four years,” she said.
“We also have to put into place a law and a plan for a pathway for citizenship for the millions of people who are here and are prepared to do what is legally required to gain citizenship,” Harris added.
Looking ahead, she said she’s planning to run for reelection alongside President Biden in the 2024 election — amid widespread speculation about whether 79-year-old commander-in-chief will seek the White House again.
“The president has been very clear that he intends to run again,” said Harris, 57. “And if he does, I will be running with him proudly.”
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The only thing about American Democracy this chucklehead needs to be concerned about is her now falsely name “Democrat” party who talks democrat but rules (not Governs) like a hard line controlling SOCIALISTS. Socialism is the collective of the weak who cannot compete one on one with the American strong and Kamala and Joe are proven examples who without a media to cover their ignorance and miss-education and crimes could not, and have not won a real debate in years of their “Promise them everything BEFORE the election, apologize for failures and hide the crimes AFTER the election. The hunger and depleted energy of hard working already COVID weakened, and struggling Work depleted Americans of past success and wealth CREATION are proven to the people just what it is like to live in the same SOCIALIST countries that every illegal is now fleeing from over our borders, only to find that Joe and Kamala are creating the same Socialist failed crime ridden hell holes in America that they fled from. Woman today have all the rights to abort, but it they live in a Pro-Life state just get a bit more inconvenienced in getting one, and might just have to pay themselves for their own mistakes. Kamala never pays for any of hers,,,at least not yet. Forget the filibuster, bring on the Biden/Kamala ghost Busters.
11 MILLION Illegals were given amnesty back in the 80s by Reagan, AND THE DEMS LIED TO him to get that.. AS A NATION i do not think in anyway, WE BECAME BETTER BECAUSE of that amnesty.
SO now days, i am UTTERLY AND TOTALLY against amnesty for illegals, in ANYWAY, shape or form.
More whining from the adenoidal fake black wastrel. We have to stop this idiot at the polls—somehow.
Vice President Kamala Harris said the highest court in the land has become an “activist court,” slamming its June ruling that overturned the Roe v. Wade decision guaranteeing a right to abortion.
“We had an established right for almost a half a century, which is the right of women to make decisions about their own body as an extension of what we have decided to be the privacy rights to which all people are entitled,” Harris told NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “And this court took that constitutional right away.
#1. Please define “we”.
#2. The supreme Court DID NOT take the non-existent constitutional right away. It mealy followed Amendment 10 – The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
To Democrats, Gender, Truth, Facts, Reality and History are all irrelevant, if the Democrats do not WANT to believe them or they disagree with them. Democrats will just make up their own, Gender, Truth, Facts, Reality and History to fit what they WANT to believe or fits into the Con or Deception that they are running at the time.
PLUS where in the constitution WAS THE BASIS for Roe vs Wade anyway? THERE IS NO right to privacy to be found anywhere so when they made the ruling back in the 60s, THEY WERE WRONG… Overturning it, was a lONG overdue correction..
ALSO she had no issue with the ‘activism’ of the court, when they Legalized GAY MARRIAGE..
I can not wait ?? Until she is out of office.
I cannot wait till she is roasting in hell.