“It’s really the civilians that are paying the heavy price. They’re just the victims. They’re caught in the crossfire of combatants, just like civilians since time immemorial."
ROCHESTER, Minn. - As fighting between Israeli forces and Hamas militants continues, members of the Jewish community in Rochester are speaking out against terrorism.
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.
Sen.
Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) strongly pushed back against that innuendo shortly before the vote, pointing to the full-throated backing she has received by the National Council of Jewish Women, the Anti-Defamation League, the Union for Reformed Judaism, and 79 local, state, national, Jewish organizations.
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.