• Jesusaurus@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    The article mentions and switches between “lawyers for the state said California” and “lawyers from then-California Attorney General Kamala Harris’ office”, which sounds like it’s intentionally conflating Harris’s direct involvement

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      2 months ago

      The article says the lawyers claims were made on Kamala’s behalf. Ultimately she remains responsible for her underlings actions. Especially when she only corrects it when someone points it out during her campaign.

      Harris, for her part, told BuzzFeed News two months after the arguments were made on her behalf, that she was “shocked” by the argument, telling the publication she was looking into it.