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By Washington Examiner

“I’m a former prosecutor,” Vice President Kamala Harris likes to remind the country as she seeks the presidency.

As Harris campaigns for the White House, it’s crucial to consider what this former prosecutor would do with the entire federal law enforcement apparatus at her command.

She would undoubtedly use the Justice Department and other federal agencies to wage the Left’s culture war, compel speech, harass religious organizations, suppress conservative ideas, and advance the cause of abortion.

In a Harris administration, every Christian organization would have a target on its back.

How do we know this? Harris’s record and rhetoric teach us as much, as does the record of the Biden-Harris Justice Department.

As California attorney general, Harris put the screws to pro-life activist David Daleiden because he blew the whistle on Planned Parenthood, an organization that has, more than any other, promoted abortion to an industrial scale, and whose endorsement Harris was seeking in her run for U.S. Senate. In retaliation, and instead of investigating Planned Parenthood’s body-part business, Harris brought frivolous charges against the whistleblower who exposed the gruesome business. The charges were ultimately tossed out.

The Biden-Harris administration has turned law enforcement against pro-lifers. The Justice Department created a special task force to prosecute pro-life activists, and its first big catch was father Mark Houck, who shoved an abortion activist to the ground in a scuffle on the streets of Philadelphia. The charges were dismissed because they were absurd. But inflicting pain on culture-war enemies was the point, not securing a conviction.

Harris has made clear that she will go after all sorts of conservative-leaning Christian groups. Famously, she branded the Knights of Columbus, who cook pancakes for parishioners and run charities for children, as an extremist group.

All such groups should brace for DOJ harassment at least or indictment at worst.

Indictment for what, you might ask.

Being pro-life is a crime in Harris’s eyes, and so crisis pregnancy centers will feel the weight of the law. Religious schools that don’t conform to brand-new ideas about gender will be accused of civil rights violations.

Democratic administrations cried “discrimination” when a Catholic school created codes of conduct for teachers that follow Catholic teaching on marriage and sexuality. Expect more of that in a Harris administration.

Recall the Stalin-era saying, “Show me the man, and I will find the crime.” If the Justice Department wants to find something with which to indict a Catholic school, a Christian home-school co-op, a crisis pregnancy center, or even an order of nuns, it can. Given tactical venue shopping jury rigging, it might even win some convictions.

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Harris and her underlings will claim they are going only after extremists, not religious organizations, per se. But that is untrue.

The Biden administration labeled angry school parents as terrorists, and the Democrats’ friends in the media brand as “Christian nationalists” those who believe their rights come from God.

It will be incumbent on fair-minded people of the Left and Right and the center to reject this lawfare. It would be best to start by rejecting Harris.