Biden DOJ Pick Aims to Revive Civil Rights Office Post-Trump (1)

Kristen Clarke, President Joe Biden’s pick to head the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice, aims to return the office to prominence amid what she calls a “national reckoning with racism.”

“We’re emerging from 2020, a year in which we experienced a national reckoning with racism and hate and other problems tearing at the fabric of communities across our country,” Clarke said. “The Justice Department stands to play an important role in moving our nation forward.”

Clarke, currently president and executive director of the National Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, has been involved in issues ...