“I think this is an activist court,” Harris told NBC anchor Chuck Todd in an interview that will be broadcast more fully Sunday. “We’ve had an established right for nearly half a century, which is the right of women to make decisions about their bodies as an extension of who we’ve decided to be, the privacy rights that all people have. And this court immediately took that constitutional. And we are suffering as a nation because of it.” Harris said the ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson “causes me great concern about the integrity of the court as a whole.” After a draft of the abortion ruling was leaked, crowds of pro-abortion rights protesters gathered outside the conservative justices’ suburban Washington homes in an unsuccessful attempt to sway them. Kamala Harris slams ‘activist’ Supreme Court for decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. Getty Images And a disturbed 26-year-old abortion rights activist was charged with attempted murder in June after he called police to say he was outside Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s home with a Glock 17 pistol, ammunition, a knife, tactical gear, pepper spray, zip ties. , a hammer, a screwdriver and duct tape. Harris went on to praise the decisions of previous Supreme Court justices, including the 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education that overturned school segregation. The case was argued by attorney Thurgood Marshall, who later became the first black judge. “My life was inspired by people like Thurgood Marshall, the work on that field [Chief Justice] Earl Warren, to appeal to a unanimous court to have Brown vote against the Board of Education,” Harris said, calling the current nine-justice panel “a very different court.” Following the verdict, protesters targeted the Supreme Court and its judges. AP Harris, a lawyer who served as California attorney general and San Francisco district attorney before joining the Senate, is the first woman to serve as vice president and would become the first female president if President Biden is unable to complete his term. The Supreme Court’s decision on abortion provided a potential boost for Democrats in this year’s midterm elections — as a large majority of voters support legal access to abortion to some degree, and Democrats point out that some Republicans want a federal ban on abortion. At the same time, Democratic politicians have faced criticism for personally attacking the conservative justices who overturned the 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade.
