A former top Hillary Clinton campaign staffer, who was most recently the head of a far-left judicial advocacy group behind the court-packing push and tweeted in support of defunding the police, is being tapped by the Biden campaign to lead communications for Vice President Harris.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sheila Nix, Harris\u2019 campaign chief of staff, said Fallon brings an array of understanding on matters important to Americans while touting his experience.<\/p>\n
\u2018Brian brings a wealth of expertise and knowledge on the issues that matter most to the American people,\u2019 Nix said in a statement to the Washington Post, which first reported the hire. \u2018We\u2019re thrilled to have him join the team, and know he will be a huge asset to reelecting President Biden and Vice President Harris.\u2019<\/p>\n
Fallon, who will reportedly begin in his new role next month, previously served as the national press secretary for\u00a0Hillary Clinton\u2019s\u00a0failed 2016 campaign. He\u2019s spent the past several years leading Demand Justice, a progressive judicial advocacy organization.<\/p>\n
Fallon\u2019s group started with efforts to discredit Republican judicial picks while backing Democratic nominees and has since morphed into more advocacy-based endeavors, such as expanding the Supreme Court, or \u2018court packing,\u2019 along with the lower courts.<\/p>\n
During a 2020 podcast episode, Fallon explained why his organization started leaning into court packing, citing advice from left-wing activist Elie Mystal, who has said he would push for the addition of 10 new Supreme Court Justices so that there are 19 total. He has also called the Constitution \u2018trash.\u2019<\/p>\n
Fallon said that Mystal \u2018was one of the leading voices calling for ideas like reforming the Supreme Court.\u2019 He went on to say that if people like Mystal, who \u2018are on the inside,\u2019 who write for \u2018elite audiences like this are willing to call it out,\u2019 Demand Justice \u2018should be willing to try to organize by it.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u2018So that\u2019s when I first got acquainted with Elie, and we did an event together in December of 2018 and took the house down with storytelling that is on display here, right now, and that\u2019s when we decided to sort of lean in on that issue,\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n
Demand Justice met with multiple Democratic senators in 2021 to discuss legislation proposing adding 4 seats to the Supreme Court.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Several of Biden\u2019s top aides have had connections to Demand Justice. Former White House press secretary Jen Psaki served as a \u2018communications consultant\u2019 for the group. Paige Herwig, Biden\u2019s point person on judicial nominations, also worked for the group before joining the administration. Christopher Kang, another co-founder of the group, served in the Obama-Biden administration, where he served as Obama\u2019s deputy counsel and special assistant for legislative affairs.<\/p>\n
In addition to being an advocate for court packing, Fallon took to Twitter in 2020 to voice his support for the movement to defund police.<\/p>\n