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Ms Clarke – a longtime civil rights advocate, whose career started at the Justice Department – emerged as a frequent critic of Donald Trump’s administration as head of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, which sued the former president over challenges to voting rights, immigration, the use of force against protesters outside the White House, and changes to the US Census.
Democrats have argued that GOP lawmakers fear her appointment to the Justice Department, along with the recent confirmation of civil rights lawyer Vanita Gupta as US Associate Attorney General, will upend American policing and strengthen civil rights and voter protections that Republicans across the US have sought to undo.