Senate Republicans Seek Firing, Potential Prosecution of Biden DOJ Civil-Rights Chief

Kristen Clarke lied to Congress under oath, the senators claim, and then manipulated a witness to conceal the felony.

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Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Kristen Clarke speaks during a news conference where Attorney General Merrick Garland announced that the Justice Department will file a lawsuit challenging a Georgia election law that imposes new limits on voting at the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., June 25, 2021.

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Live by the sword, die by the sword.

That is the message Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans, led by Senator Tom Cotton (R., Ark.), have just sent Merrick Garland, the Biden attorney general and lawfare maestro, in a letter seeking the “immediate termination and removal from office” — for starters — of Kristen Clarke, the chief of the Biden DOJ’s Civil Rights Division.

Andrew C. McCarthy

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Andrew C. McCarthy

Andrew C. McCarthy is a senior fellow at National Review Institute, an NR contributing editor, and author of Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency.

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