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Biden DOJ Enlists Kristen Clarke, Who Defended Black Nationalists Charged With Voter Intimidation, To Combat Voter Intimidation

Chuck Ross   
April 18, 2024

Justice Department civil rights chief Kristen Clarke released guidelines this week on how to report cases of voter intimidation, asserting that "voter intimidation has no place in our democracy." Years earlier, Clarke defended a New Black Panther Party member who threatened a Philadelphia poll worker while brandishing a club.

As a civil rights attorney in 2009, Clarke lobbied the Obama administration to drop a case against members of the New Black Panther Party charged with intimidating voters and poll workers in Philadelphia. Two members of the militant group, one holding a billy club, called black poll workers working for the GOP "race traitors" and said there "would be hell to pay" because of the workers' party affiliation.

A Justice Department lawyer told a federal oversight panel that Clarke, then a lawyer with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, "was lobbying for the dismissal of the New Black Panther Party case before it was dismissed." Clarke during her 2021 Senate confirmation hearing dodged questions about her involvement, telling lawmakers that "there were many people who deemed that a weak case." The Bush administration filed the case in January 2009, but the Obama administration dropped it months later, drawing widespread allegations of political interference.

Clarke's involvement in the matter could raise concerns that the Biden administration will apply a double standard to voter intimidation cases in the upcoming election. Some Republicans have cited the case of Douglass Mackey, convicted of voter suppression for posting memes on social media that encouraged black voters to vote by text message for Hillary Clinton. Mackey, who was arrested days after Biden took office, was sentenced last year to seven months in prison.

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https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/biden-doj-enlists-kristen-clarke-who-defended-black-nationalists-charged-with-voter-intimidation-to-combat-voter-intimidation/

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Clarke, in her confirmation hearing, lied when asked whether she'd ever been arrested. She was, in fact arrested. Apparently, CNN (Rabinowitz) is trying to do damage control for her.

Stephen L. Miller
@redsteeze
To be clear what happened here:
1. Kristen Clarke, the head of Biden's DOJ Civil Rights Division did not disclose an arrest from a domestic fight
2. CNN took the original report, omitted that fact she lied under oath, did not link to the original story, and framed Clarke's own statement
6:57 PM · May 1, 2024

https://twitter.com/HBRabinowitz/status/1785747482523169240

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The Daily Signal reported on how Clarke lied under oath:

The Justice Department’s Kristen Clarke confirmed on Wednesday that she did not disclose an arrest and expungement during her nomination to the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, alleging that she was a victim of domestic abuse.

The Daily Signal reported Tuesday evening that Clarke, who testified in 2021 to senators that she had never been arrested for or accused of committing a violent crime, was involved in a violent domestic dispute with her now ex-husband, one in which he alleged that she sliced his finger to the bone with a knife. ...

https://twitter.com/MaryMargOlohan/status/1785760610908619150

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DOJ official Kristen Clarke comes clean after falsely testifying to Senate that she had never been arrested
By Victor Nava
Published May 2, 2024
Updated May 2, 2024, 8:58 a.m. ET
New York Post

Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke admitted Wednesday that she was arrested and chose not to disclose the legal matter during her Senate confirmation process because it had been expunged from her record.

During her 2021 confirmation process, Clarke, who heads the Justice Department’s civil rights division, was asked by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) in a questionnaire if she’d “ever been arrested for or accused of committing a violent crime against any person.”

Clarke responded, “No.”

The Daily Signal reported Tuesday that Clarke was arrested in Maryland in relation to a domestic violence complaint back in 2006. ...

https://nypost.com/2024/05/02/us-news/doj-official-kristen-clarke-admits-to-falsely-testifying-to-senate-that-she-had-never-been-arrested/