Again, a great many of these attacks derive from not fully understanding her role as an Attorney General and, thus, her limitations. Your office is tasked with upholding convictions. You aren’t a politician—you are a lawyer and a prosecutor working for the government. Frankly, the fact that she fought to overturn a homophobic proposition shows how often she frankly overstepped her role when she could. You aren’t supposed to contradict past convictions; you uphold them in Court.
And, as a lawyer, you use whatever legal means to make that happen.
Sure, it makes it difficult to run for office, but the stuff that she actually had real control over (i.e. not the cases she defended, but the priorities for law enforcement and targets for incarceration) do hint at a more progressive track record, the cameras thing being the one legitimate thing I think she can be called on to answer for. Not to mention that when she could take openly political stands as a Senator, she has been consistently in Sanders’ corner. The fact that she is dismissed, but Tulsi Gabbard, who actively defends genocidal maniacs and makes homophobic statements (way after Kamala Harris fought the homophobic proposition passed democratically in her own state), isn’t is, to me, unreasonable.
This Op-Ed I think lays out my position quite clearly, coming from someone with more “skin in the game” than I, as a white male, have.