DOJ Civil Rights Alums Back Kristen Clarke Ahead Of Ugly Confirmation Battle

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More than 80 former officials are supporting the nomination of Kristen Clarke, a longtime civil rights lawyer who would be the first woman confirmed to the job.

. Gupta has the support of Sen. Joe Manchin and is ultimately expected to be confirmed in the divided Senate, but her nomination has been stalled by a deadlocked Senate Judiciary Committee.

Because Clarke spent her whole career in civil rights, Rich said, Republicans are trying to paint her as a “wild, left-wing radical,” a tactic that has been used on many candidates before her who also had a background in civil rights. “It’s always one of the most controversial nominations of a Democratic administration, and I think it’s truly because it’s about that job,” Proll said. “This is somebody who knows civil rights, is going to do everything they can to enforce them, and the anti-civil rights senators and people supporting them are very much threatened by that and opposed to that.”

Proll said that Clarke’s opponents are “scraping the bottom of the barrel” with “unfair” and “offensive” attacks against someone “who has contributed so much to improving and protecting this democracy.”

 

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