Dead Heat in Partisan Judiciary Committee Vote Puts Kristen Clarke’s DOJ Civil Rights Nomination in Senate’s Court
Adam Klasfeld
Kristen Clarke’s nomination to lead the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division on Thursday.
In the wake of the Committee’s 11-11 vote, Senate Majority Leader
Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) now can send Clarke’s nomination to the floor in a bid to make her the first Black woman to hold that post. No Republicans voted in her favor, subjecting the nominee to vitriolic attacks by Republican Senators
Mike Lee of Utah and
Ted Cruz of Texas depicting her as “extreme” and insinuating that she has associated with people who hold antisemitic views.