On Tuesday, the U.S. Senate, by a vote of 51-48, confirmed Kristen Clark as Assistant Attorney General to head the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division. She was sworn in Tuesday evening, making her the first woman, and the first Black woman, to hold this position. According to NBC News:
Her nomination was met with opposition from Republicans, who accused Clarke of antisemitism. The accusation stemmed from an incident in 1994 in which the Harvard Black Students Association, a group Clarke led at age 19, invited a professor accused of promoting antisemitic conspiracy theories to speak. Clarke defended the decision at the time in the Harvard Crimson, the school's student newspaper.
She acknowledged this past January that giving the professor a platform was a mistake, and touted her record on antisemitism in her civil rights work.
