Top Harris aide backed ‘defund police’ and court-packing

Published July 27, 2024 6:00am ET



A top aide to Vice President Kamala Harris, the 2024 presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, supported the “defund police” movement and progressive efforts to pack the Supreme Court with more justices.

Brian Fallon, the former national press secretary for Hillary Clinton’s failed 2016 presidential campaign, is now in a key staffer position as Harris appears likely to secure the nomination this year to face former President Donald Trump in November. In January, Fallon took a job as communications director for Harris after an almost six-year stint as executive director of Demand Justice, a left-wing dark money group aiming to upend the federal judiciary radically.

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