Senate Confirms Kristen Clarke, Who Published ‘Defund the Police’ Op-Ed, as Assistant Attorney General

The Senate voted 51–48 on Tuesday to confirm Kristen Clarke as Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. All 50 Senate Democrats and Maine Republican Susan Collins voted in the affirmative.

Clarke has been one of President Biden’s more controversial nominees to date. Among other matters, Clarke published a Newsweek op-ed in 2020 in which she called for cutting the budgets of police departments.

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