Kamala Harris warns of threats to democracy, looks to codifying abortion rights
Vice President Kamala Harris in an Aug. 12, 2022, file photo. - Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group/TNS
September 11, 2022
Vice President Kamala Harris criticized 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 peo...