Legal experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation that questions Vice President Kamala Harris has asked in past judicial nomination hearings indicate her top priority in selecting justices is to ensure they advance left-wing goals.

During her confirmation hearings, as a California senator, Harris pressured Trump's judicial appointees with questions about climate change, abortion, religious affiliation, and more. Experts told DCNF that the partisan tone of Harris' questions indicates she prioritizes judges who can score political points with voters over judges who will interpret the law and the Constitution literally.

“If you look at the types of questions she's asking, she clearly misunderstands the role of the court,” JCN President Carrie Severino said. (Related article: Experts point out that Democrats are intensifying their battle with the Supreme Court with unconstitutional bill aimed at ruling the president immune from charges.)

At Judge Amy Coney Barrett's confirmation hearing, Harris asked Did Barrett believe that “climate change is happening and threatening the air we breathe and the water we drink”? During Justice Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation hearings, Harris said, asked “Can you think of a law that gives the government the power to make decisions about men's bodies?”

It's been exactly one year since Brett Kavanaugh was nominated to the Supreme Court, and here's a question I still ponder from his confirmation hearings: Can you think of any law that gives the government the power to make decisions about men's bodies? pic.twitter.com/JG4d03SJag

— Vice President Kamala Harris (@VP) July 10, 2019

Harris also questioned Nebraska District Judge Brian Buescher about his membership in the Knights of Columbus, which he described as “an all-male organization made up primarily of Catholic men.”

“When you joined the Knights of Columbus, did you know that the organization was opposed to a woman's right to choose?” Harris said. Written in her written questions.

Severino told DCNF it was disturbing that Harris' membership in a “long-standing Catholic fraternal organization” effectively makes her “ineligible to hold judicial office.”

“This seems to play heavily into the anti-Catholic rhetoric that is unfortunately prevalent within some parts of the Democratic Party,” Severino said.

Thomas Zipping, a senior legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation's Edwin Meese III Center for Law and Judicial Studies, told DCNF that Harris' questions “clearly reflect her views of a political justice system in which judges make outcome-oriented decisions based on their personal views.”

“Liberals' views of the judiciary are political, and their goal is to appoint judges who will ensure that they advance liberal political interests,” Zipping said. “Liberals believe that judges' decisions are driven more by personal views than by the law, and so they push for candidates to reveal their personal views on certain issues.”

“Liberals have cultivated a political view of the judiciary that is not only at odds with its authority; [designs] “The teachings of America's Founding Fathers will be upheld, but the 'rule of law' will be impossible,” he continued.

When Kamala Harris asked if she acknowledged that COVID is contagious and that smoking causes cancer, Barrett answered “yes,” but declined to say whether climate change was a threat, calling it a “national controversy issue.”

Mr Harris: “You've made it clear that you think that's a moot point.” pic.twitter.com/lYpBcDHjc3

—CBS News (@CBSNews) October 14, 2020

Severino noted that Harris generally uses her nomination hearings as an “attention-grabbing opportunity” while “trying to be as overtly liberal” as possible, and said Harris' “performative” behavior raises concerns that she will use her judicial appointments in the same way, “to pander to left-wing dark money groups that are always looking for more radical candidates.”

Harris is Between Although a Senate Judiciary Committee report ultimately concluded there was “no evidence to support the allegations,” Democratic senators who had pursued Kavanaugh over the sexual assault allegations called for an impeachment investigation of him. She also called for an impeachment inquiry into Kavanaugh in September 2019.

Harris' communications director, Brian Fallon, previously served as executive director. director He is a member of Demand Justice, a progressive court reform group he co-founded that advocates for more seats on the Supreme Court. Taking the lead A movement calling for Justice Stephen Breyer to resign so Biden can appoint the “first black woman to the Supreme Court.” Participated He is calling for an ethics investigation into Justice Clarence Thomas.

Demanding Supreme Court Justice Shortlist Members include California Democratic Rep. Katie Porter, Shannon Minter, legal director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights, and Bridget Amiri, deputy director of the ACLU's Reproductive Freedom Project.

The list also includes Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division. Bring Fee Lawsuits against pro-life activists under the Free Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE Act), and HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra previously continuation Harris, who became California's attorney general in 2017, indicted a pro-life journalist.

Harris also supports President Joe Biden's recently announced plan to reform the Supreme Court, which includes imposing ethics rules, establishing term limits for judges and passing a constitutional amendment to overturn the Supreme Court's recent ruling on presidential immunity.

Harris personally Interviewed Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson was one of three Supreme Court nominees before Biden was selected, and Biden later said he was “fortunate” to have had her counsel. According to To CNN.

As California Attorney General, Harris Open She led an investigation into whether Exxon Mobil misled investors about the risks of climate change. She has also filed lawsuits against energy companies such as: Chevron and BP.

Harris too Protected As California's attorney general, she introduced a bill that would have required pro-life pregnancy centers to advertise abortion, but it was later struck down by the Supreme Court.

The Harris campaign did not respond to a request for comment.

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