Seven weeks after becoming the presumptive Democratic nominee, Kamala Harris has unveiled her campaign's “issues” page, revealing a key part of her platform: a push to reform the U.S. Supreme Court. A metadata analysis shows that most of the language appears to have been lifted from Joe Biden’s campaign website.
Following the Supreme Court's July 1 ruling, which affirmed in a 6-3 decision that a president has “absolute immunity” for official acts and no immunity for unofficial actions, the Biden-Harris administration's lawfare against President Trump was significantly hindered.
Harris has pledged to challenge this ruling, stating that she will fight to ensure “no former president has immunity for crimes committed while in the White House.” Her platform also advocates for “common-sense Supreme Court reforms,” including requiring justices to adhere to the same ethics rules as other federal judges and imposing term limits.
Harris’ stance aligns with Biden, who has similarly supported Supreme Court changes following the ruling. The New Republic, a left-leaning publication, highlighted Monday that key portions of Harris's new policy section appeared to be directly copied from Biden's website, even including calls for Biden’s re-election.
In a piece titled “Embarrassing Copy-Paste Plagues Harris’s Launch of Policy Platform,” the outlet noted:
“Shortly after Kamala Harris released her policy agenda on Sunday evening, users on X spotted something in the metadata: Much of the language appears to have been lifted from Joe Biden’s campaign website. On Sunday night, X user Corinne Green pointed out that the issues section of Harris’s website contained metadata with language urging voters to reelect Joe Biden. This language was visible when links to the campaign site were shared, and in the website’s description on Google searches.”
The article continued to state that this gives the impression Harris's campaign recycled policy language from Biden's documents, an embarrassing slip for a campaign created partly to inject new energy into the Democratic Party. Additionally, the section on her Israel-Palestine policy closely resembled Biden’s stance.
While the Biden re-election references were later removed, The New Republic commented that Harris’s campaign has yet to fulfill its promise of offering a “new way forward.”
