
<p>Kristen Clarke holds a high position in the Department of Justice. ; She is the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights. ; She was appointed to the post by President Biden. ; It is a position that requires Senate confirmation. ; She got it in 2021.</p>



<p>It was recently reported that Clarke had committed perjury during her Senate confirmation hearing – in writing and in testimony,</p>



<p>Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton posed this question to Clarke during the hearing. ; “Since becoming a legal adult, have you ever been arrested for or accused of committing a violent crime against any person?”</p>



<p>Clarke answered, “no.” ; in a similar written question as part of the vetting process, Clarke also answered “no.”</p>



<p>Weeell &#8230; It turns out that she was arrested and charged with “committing a violent crime against” another person. ; She was charged with “domestic violence” &#8212; specifically threatening her husband with a knife. ;</p>



<p>The case was dropped – an example of prosecutorial discretion, which raises questions about the rule-of-law when it comes to politically connected individuals. ; She subsequently filed an order to have both the court and police arrest records expunged. ; She got it. ; (I have worked with clients and friends on the issue of expungement and learned it is VERY difficult to get records expunged unless you have what is called “clout.”)</p>



<p>Clarke’s arrest was not due to youthful indiscretion, it occurred in 2006, when she was 31 years old, and the final expungement was granted in 2008.</p>



<p>Clarke’s arrest was reported in the press earlier this year. ; Initially, the Department of Justice ignored the reports and refused to comment. ; But the story spread, and a number of Senators who had voted for Clarke’s confirmation expressed their concerns. ;</p>



<p>That is when Clarke offered her explanation for lying to Congress in sworn testimony in an exclusive statement to CNN. She said she did not reveal her arrest because she was a victim of domestic abuse.</p>



<p>(Whoa! ; I guess if you cannot come up with good excuses for committing perjury, you have to come up with a bad one – and that is a very bad one. It makes no sense.)</p>



<p>CNN gave her sympathetic coverage, ignoring the foundational fact that she had committed perjury two times on a significant matter. ; The Network flipped off the matter as nothing more than a right-wing “pounce.”</p>



<p>The DOJ, itself, took up the irrational excuse, confirming that she did commit perjury, but it was understandable in view of the domestic abuse she suffered. ; There has not been a scintilla of evidence that she was a victim of domestic abuse – and her husband denies the accusations. ; The only fact we have to go on is that SHE was arrested and charged with domestic abuse – with a knife, no less.</p>



<p>We can recall that President Clinton escaped removal from office but was still held accountable in court for his perjury. ; He lost his law license over it.</p>



<p>Clarke was confirmed by the Senate despite a paper she wrote at Harvard suggesting that Blacks were superior to Whites physically and intellectually because of the melanin. ; She claimed that the paper was meant to be satirical. ; A later fact check by <em>Newsweek</em> did not find anything to suggest it was humorous. ; Clarke’s racist theory was subsequently supported by Harvard’s Black Students Association, which called for further investigation of it.  ;Hardly the response to a joke.</p>



<p>Even if you disregard Clarke’s Harvard paper nothing more than the excesses of youth, perjury by an adult person in the legal profession being confirmed for a high-level job in the Department of Justice is more than enough reason to terminate Clarke. ; It is more likely, however, that the Clarke case will be another example of a two-tiered justice system when it comes to cases involving political left-wing Democrats.</p>



<p>So, there ‘tis.</p>

Kristen Clarke should be fired from DOJ for perjury
