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Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division speaks during a news conference Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024, in Memphis, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV, File)

The NAACP names ex-DOJ civil rights chief Kristen Clarke as its top lawyer

By Aaron Morrison - Associated Press

Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division speaks during a news conference Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024, in Memphis, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

Biden official who targeted pro-life protesters hired by university to to teach civil rights law

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division announces an investigation into the City of Lexington, Miss., and the Lexington Police Department, Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2023, in Jackson, Miss. as U.S. Attorney Todd W. Gee looks on. The Lexington police department unconstitutionally jailed people for unpaid fines without first assessing whether they could afford to pay them, the U.S. Department of Justice said Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis) **FILE**

DOJ’s Kristen Clarke admits arrest after lying at confirmation

By Mallory Wilson - The Washington Times

A Lexington, Miss., police SUV is parked outside their department near the town square, Aug. 15, 2022. The U.S. Justice Department opened an investigation Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2023 into alleged civil rights violations by police in a majority Black Mississippi city. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, file)

Justice Department opens probe of police in small Mississippi city over alleged civil rights abuses

By Michael Goldberg - Associated Press

Attorney Michael Harper holds a photo of Lashawn Thompson's cell in the Fulton County, Ga., Jail at a news conference addressing the results of an independent autopsy determining the cause of death of Thompson, May 22, 2023, at the state Capital in Atlanta. The U.S. Department of Justice has opened a civil rights investigation into jail conditions in Georgia's most populous county, with officials citing violence, filthy conditions and excessive force by jail officers. (Christina Matacotta/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, File)

Justice Department to investigate jail conditions in Georgia’s most populous county

By Kate Brumback - Associated Press

U.S. Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, left, confers with U.S. Attorney Darren J. LaMarca for the Southern District of Mississippi, prior to addressing community leaders in Lexington, Miss., during a stop on the division's civil rights tour, Thursday, June 1, 2023. At each of the four stops in Mississippi, Clarke plans to engage with community leaders and reaffirm the department's commitment to protecting the civil rights of all Americans, and listen to their concerns. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Federal government orders desegregation in 32 Mississippi school districts

By Michael Goldberg - Associated Press

FILE - Paul &quot;Rip&quot; Connell, CEO of Private Clinic North, a methadone clinic, shows a 35 mg liquid dose of methadone at the clinic in Rossville, Ga., on March 7, 2017. A deepening opioid epidemic is prompting the U.S. Department of Justice to warn about discrimination against those who are taking medication to wean themselves off their addiction. In guidelines published Tuesday, April 5, 2022, the DOJ said employers, health care providers, jails and others cannot discriminate against people because they are taking prescribed drugs to treat opioid use disorder. (AP Photo/Kevin D. Liles, File)

U.S.: Discrimination based on opioid treatment violates law

By Geoff Mulvihill - Associated Press

FILE - In this Monday, April 19, 2021, file photo, a former felon holds a sign addressing voter suppression during a Poor People's Campaign assembly in downtown Jackson, Miss. The demonstrator was among speakers who called for an initiative to try simplify the way Mississippi restores voting rights to people convicted of some felonies, and other social issues. On Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2021, a federal appeals court considered a lawsuit that seeks to overturn Mississippis ban on voting rights for people convicted of some felonies. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

Top Justice official: Voter discrimination ‘alive and well,’ urges restoration of Voting Rights Act

By Emily Zantow - The Washington Times

Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Kristen Clarke, right, accompanied by Attorney General Merrick Garland, left, speaks at a news conference at the Department of Justice in Washington, Thursday, Aug. 5, 2021, to announce that the Department of Justice is opening an investigation into the city of Phoenix and the Phoenix Police Department. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) **FILE**

‘Matter of great urgency’: DOJ calls for restoration of Voting Rights Act

By Emily Zantow and Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Senate OKs ‘radical’ Kristen Clarke to lead DOJ Civil Rights Division

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

This Oct. 15, 2019, file photo shows Kristen Clarke, president and executive director of the National Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights Under Law in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Senate panel deadlocks over Kristen Clarke nomination to head DOJ’s Civil Rights Division

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division nominee Kristen Clarke speaks during an event with President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris at The Queen theater in Wilmington, Del., Thursday, Jan. 7, 2021. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) **FILE**

Kristen Clarke, DOJ nominee, says she doesn’t support defunding police, despite her op-ed

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

In this Nov. 14, 2018 photo, East Hampton, Conn., Police Chief Dennis Woessner addresses the Town Council in East Hampton. Chief Woessner has concluded that an officer's membership in a far-right group infamous for engaging in violent clashes at political rallies didn't violate any department policies. Woessner said that officer Kevin P. Wilcox is no longer associated with the Proud Boys group. (Jeff Mill/ Hearst Connecticut Media via AP)

Chief: Officer’s Proud Boys membership didn’t break policy

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN - Associated Press