(UnitedHeadlines.com) – On July 12, a group of Republican senators on the Senate Judiciary Committee wrote a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland demanding he fire the Department of Justice Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Kristen Clarke.
In the letter, the group, led by Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton, accused Clarke of lying under oath during her 2021 confirmation process when she was questioned about ever being arrested for or accused of “committing a violent crime against” anyone. Her answer, given under oath, “was a lie,” according to the letter.
The lawmakers noted that Clarke has now stated that in 2006, she was arrested “for attacking and injuring someone with a knife.” They added that information has been revealed showing her publicist, before the full Senate confirmation vote, “contacted the man she attacked” in an attempt to hide the information
The letter cited a report from April 30 that uncovered Clarke had been arrested for a domestic violence incident on July 4, 2006, after she allegedly pulled a knife and sliced the finger of her then-husband, Reginald Avery. The incident and her arrest were subsequently expunged from her record.
In May, Clarke responded to the report. While she admitted that she was arrested, she claimed she had not lied under oath as she did not have to disclose her arrest because it had been expunged.
Clarke is the second appointee of President Joe Biden to be accused of lying during their confirmation process. In June, Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley stated Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Director Tracy Stone-Manning lied in her written testimony for her job when she wrote she had “never been arrested” and had “never been the target of such an investigation.” However, she was the primary subject of an investigation in 1989 of an Idaho case involving a tree spiking ring, when activists stuck metal rods into trees, causing the bark to explode with projectiles when the trees were processed for logging. The investigation resulted in a plea deal with federal prosecutors in 1993.
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