The Vice President said in a Friday interview that she "never believed" the testimony of the Associate Supreme Court Justices when they were questioned about their views on abortion.
During an interview with CBS News correspondent Robert Costa, Harris talked about the impact of the court's decision to overturn the abortion decision of 1973.
The vice president spoke about her initial decision to reject both nominations to the high court when she was asked by Costa if she agreed with some Democrats who have called for the impeachment of both of them.
I started from the point of being in the Senate. I didn't think they were true. I didn't think they were telling the truth. She wouldn't give a position on the question of impeachment, but she said it was her reason for voting against it.
According to Harris, Democrats didn't codify the issue into law because they believed that the issue was settled.
She said that she believed that certain issues were just settled. There are certain issues that have been resolved.
The nearly 50-year-old decision was overturned last month.
The vice president agreed. "That's why I believe that we are living in a very uncertain time."
The Supreme Court voted to uphold a Mississippi abortion law, but also voted to overturn it.
During Donald Trump's term in office, Republicans tried to turn back the decision, with the former justices touching on precedent during their confirmation hearings.
All of Trump's appointees voted to overturn the law.
Our history has value in and of itself because it is part of the value of precedent. It adds to the determinacy of law, as evidenced by the value that it has.
The determinacy of the law is increased when a case is settled. There was a time when the issue was a highly debated one. He said we move forward.
The 1992 Supreme Court decision which upheld the legality of abortion was the subject of many questions during the hearing.
He told senators that the Supreme Court's precedent regarding abortion is important. It's not as if it's just a run of the mill case that was decided and never been reconsidered, but it was reconsidered and decided to reaffirm it. It's a precedent on precedent.
President Joe Biden on Friday signed an executive order protecting abortion and emergency contraception access, but also pressed for a law codifying abortion into law, a difficult sell in the Senate.
Biden threw his support behind a special carve-out that would allow the legislation to pass with a simple majority.
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