ANALYSIS: TRUE. New York Times: Kamala Harris Was Not A Progressive Prosecutor: The senator was often on the wrong side of history when she served as California’s attorney general. “Time after time, when progressives urged her to embrace criminal justice reforms as a district attorney and then the state’s attorney general, Ms. Harris opposed them or stayed silent. Most troubling, Ms. Harris fought tooth and nail to uphold wrongful convictions that had been secured through official misconduct that included evidence tampering, false testimony and the suppression of crucial information by prosecutors.”