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However, the pick rebuffs civil rights leaders who called for Mr. Biden to address issues of diversity and racial injustice by selecting a person of color to be America’s top cop.
Judge Garland, who is White, does not come into the job with the social justice advocacy resume of others who were considered for the position.
Candidates with fuller social justice resumes included outgoing Sen. Doug Jones, Alabama Democrat, who, while serving as a U.S. attorney, convicted Ku Klux Klan members of bombing a Black church.
Another candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, who is Black, oversaw the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, which enforces federal anti-discrimination laws.