Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) and several other Republican Senators are calling on Attorney General Merrick Garland to fire Kristen Clarke, a high ranking official in the civil rights division, over charges that she perjured herself during the confirmation process.
During questioning, Cotton asked Clarke if she had ever been arrested. Although she claimed she hadn’t, she apparently was arrested in 2006 after allegedly attacking her husband with a knife.
The Daily Signal broke the story back in April:
EXCLUSIVE: DOJ’s Kristen Clarke Testified She Was Never Arrested. Court Records and Text Messages Indicate She Was.Clarke was nominated by President-elect Joe Biden on Jan. 7, 2021, and later confirmed by the U.S. Senate on May 25, 2021, to lead the DOJ’s “crown jewel,” as former Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. described the Civil Rights Division.Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris celebrated Clarke as the first black woman to head the Civil Rights Division, promising she would focus on fighting voter suppression and hate crimes “across the country.”During her confirmation, Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., asked then-nominee Clarke: “Since becoming a legal adult, have you ever been arrested for or accused of committing a violent crime against any person?”“No,” she responded, according to responses she submitted under oath to “Questions for the Record” from U.S. senators.Messages as well as records obtained and authenticated by The Daily Signal indicate that Clarke may have been less than forthcoming with this statement.Clarke’s ex-husband, Reginald Avery, alleged to the American Accountability Foundation’s Tom Jones in 2021 that Clarke attacked him with a knife, deeply slicing his finger to the bone, on the night of July 4, 2006, while they were married and living in Maryland.According to messages and documents reviewed by The Daily Signal, police arrested Clarke that night.
Cotton appears to be taking this very seriously.
Again, from the Daily Signal:
Republican Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton is calling on Attorney General Merrick Garland to fire Kristen Clarke following The Daily Signal’s reporting on her arrest and subsequent expungement.“I write regarding an act of perjury committed by Kristen Clarke, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights,” he wrote in a letter first published by Breitbart News. “I call for Ms. Clarke’s immediate termination and removal from office.”Cotton sourced The Daily Signal’s April 30 report revealing for the first time that Clarke hid her arrest for a domestic violence incident and its subsequent expungement from investigators when she was awaiting Senate confirmation to her high-ranking Justice Department post.
Democrats went after people in the Trump administration for far less.
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