The unaddressed sins of Kamala Harris and Amy Klobuchar

The two 2020 candidates and former prosecutors can change their minds about the justice system. But they must tell us why.

Senators Amy Klobuchar and Kamala Harris.
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Kamala Harris is in a tricky spot. Her experience as a local prosecutor who worked her way up to serve as San Francisco district attorney and California attorney general will no doubt feature prominently in her presidential campaign — but Harris is also visibly eager to demonstrate she's hip to what the kids think is groovy.

Thus did the candidate find herself chatting Monday with Charlamagne tha God on his morning radio show, The Breakfast Club, a conversation in which, laughing, Harris said she smoked marijuana in college and "did inhale." Weed "gives a lot of people joy, and we need more joy," Harris added, reiterating her new support for recreational legalization.

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.