Prominent Left-Wing Prosecutors Endorse Biden’s Nominee To Lead Civil Rights Office

Kristen Clarke, the nominee to lead the Justice Department’s civil rights division, received endorsements from several big city prosecutors who are under fire over their soft-on-crime policies, according to a letter released ahead of her confirmation hearing this week.

“The Civil Rights Division must take on great importance during the Biden Administration,” reads the letter, signed by 16 prosecutors.

They noted that Clarke, who serves as president of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, would be the first black woman to lead the civil rights division.