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Posted by: Kate Prince on May 27, 2021

The U.S. Senate on Tuesday confirmed Kristen Clarke to lead the Justice Department’s civil rights division, The Hill reports. Clarke will be the first Black woman in the role of assistant attorney general for civil rights. Republicans opposed Clarke’s nomination was deadlocked 11-11 in the Senate Judiciary Committee. But that did not prevent the nomination from going to the full Senate floor where it passed on a tight vote of 51-48. Before being nominated, Clarke was the president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.