Kamala Harris needs to break Cory Booker fever

Published September 7, 2018 2:35pm ET



In the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., snatched the coveted mantle of wokeness away from Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., to crown himself progressive champion yesterday.

It didn’t matter that his big overture — making public documents marked committee confidential — was a stunt. It turned out that the White House emails of Judge Brett Kavanaugh were already accessible, were legally sound, and completely uncontroversial. But it made Booker look like a progressive warrior, and that was very, very bad for Harris.

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