{"id":2295483,"date":"2024-07-15T16:19:01","date_gmt":"2024-07-15T20:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-sens-demand-doj-fire-kristen-clarke-for-lying-under-oath\/"},"modified":"2024-07-15T16:20:43","modified_gmt":"2024-07-15T20:20:43","slug":"gop-sens-demand-doj-fire-kristen-clarke-for-lying-under-oath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-sens-demand-doj-fire-kristen-clarke-for-lying-under-oath\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Sens Demand DOJ Fire Kristen Clarke For Lying Under Oath"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgop-sens-demand-doj-fire-kristen-clarke-for-lying-under-oath%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2295483&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Nearly a dozen Republican senators wrote a letter to Attorney General Merrick \u2062Garland demanding the firing of the Justice Department&#8217;s top official for civil rights, Kristen Clarke. They accused Clarke of lying under oath during her 2021\u2062 confirmation process by denying her arrest for attacking and injuring \u200csomeone with a knife in 2006. Republican lawmakers are calling for \u200dClarke&#8217;s removal from her position over the \u200ballegations of deceit. Additionally, Republicans in the House failed to hold Garland in contempt last week \u200dfor not turning over audio \u2062recordings\u2063 between President Biden and special counsel Robert Hur. The report from Hur concluded \u200dthat Biden, at 81, was too senile to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/conservative-charged-with-election-interference-for-social-media-post\/\" title=\"Conservative charged with election interference for social media post\">face federal charges<\/a> based \u2064on his struggle to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-struggled-to-recall-dates-and-details-in-hourslong-hur-testimony\/\" title=\"Biden&#039;s testimony was marked by difficulty recalling dates and details\">recall important \u2063details<\/a>. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna promised to \u200creintroduce the contempt resolution when more Republicans \u2062are present in Congress.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Nearly a dozen Republican senators wrote a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cotton.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/ag_garland_letter.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">letter<\/a> to Attorney General Merrick Garland last week demanding the Justice Department chief fire the agency\u2019s top official for civil rights.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, lawmakers led by Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., on the Senate Judiciary Committee accused Clarke lying under oath during her 2021 confirmation process to serve as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-antrim-co-forensic-report-bombshell-reveals-dominion-machines-were-set-at-68-05-error-ratemeaning-68-05-of-ballots-could-be-sent-out-for-mass-adjudication-giving-individuals-or-ma\/\" title=\"BREAKING: Antrim Co. Forensic Report BOMBSHELL Reveals Dominion Machines Were Set At 68.05% Error Rate\u2026Meaning 68.05% Of Ballots Could Be Sent Out For Mass Adjudication, Giving Individuals Or Machines Ability To Change 68.05% Of Votes\">assistant attorney general<\/a> for civil rights.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring her nomination to her current role, Ms. Clarke was asked if she had \u2018ever been arrested for or accused of committing a violent crime against any person,&#8217;\u201d senators wrote. \u201cMs. Clarke was unequivocal, responding under oath to the Senate Judiciary Committee, \u2018No.\u2019 That was a lie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMs. Clarke has now admitted that she was arrested in 2006 for attacking and injuring someone with a knife,\u201d the letter explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has also recently come to light that, shortly before the full Senate voted on her nomination, Ms. Clarke and her publicist contacted the man she attacked in an attempt to cover up her false testimony,\u201d lawmakers added. <\/p>\n<p>Senators cited a spring <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2024\/05\/13\/exclusive-dojs-kristen-clarke-asked-husband-say-wasnt-abuser-during-confirmation-process-alleges\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">report<\/a> from Daily Signal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Detrans-Stories-Escaping-Gender-Ideology\/dp\/1684515017\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">author<\/a> and reporter Mary Margaret Olohan, who wrote in May that Clarke asked her ex-husband \u201cfor a statement saying that she was not a domestic abuser during a confirmation process where she did not disclose her past arrest.\u201d Olohan\u2019s reporting was based on an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2024\/04\/30\/exclusive-dojs-kristen-clarke-testified-she-was-never-arrested-court-records-and-text-messages-indicate-she-was\/?utm_source=substack&#038;utm_medium=email\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">investigation<\/a> from the American Accountability Foundation, which found Clarke pulled a knife on her ex-husband, Reginald Avery, \u201cdeeply slicing his finger to the bone\u201d on July 4, 2006, when the pair were married and living together in Maryland.<\/p>\n<p>The incident \u201cended in her arrest and was ultimately expunged,\u201d Olohan reported in April. But \u201cduring her Senate confirmation, Clarke specifically denied ever having been arrested for or accused of committing a violent crime.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now Republican senators are calling on the attorney general to remove Clarke from her Senate-confirmed role over the allegations that she lied to lawmakers to get the job three years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Breitbart <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2024\/07\/12\/exclusive-tom-cotton-ag-merrick-garland-must-fire-top-doj-official-kristen-clarke-lying-to-congress-under-oath-is-a-felony\/?utm_source=substack&#038;utm_medium=email\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a> exclusively on the letter before it was made public Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClarke offered an exclusive statement to leftwing CNN in May \u2014 seeking to counter criticism against her \u2014 in which she admitted she had been arrested but argued that she was not required to disclose that fact because the arrest was later expunged,\u201d Breitbart wrote. But \u201can expungement is a civil action and is not a pardon. Records that have been expunged are \u2018destroyed or sealed,\u2019 according to Black\u2019s Law Dictionary, in a manner that blocks the public from accessing them or verifying their existence. Multiple justifications exist for expungement by a judge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Republicans in the House <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/07\/11\/house-republicans-fail-to-hold-merrick-garland-in-contempt-of-congress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">failed<\/a> to hold President Joe Biden\u2019s attorney general in \u201cinherent contempt\u201d last week over Garland\u2019s refusal to turn over the audio recordings between Biden and special counsel Robert Hur. In February, Hur wrapped up a federal investigation into the president\u2019s mishandling of classified material and <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/02\/08\/prosecutors-decline-to-charge-elderly-biden-over-poor-memory\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">concluded<\/a> at 81, Biden was too senile to face federal charges. Hur\u2019s report based on multiple interviews in October said the president struggled to recall when he was vice president, forgot the timeline of his son\u2019s death \u201ceven within several years,\u201d and had a \u201chazy\u201d recollection \u201cwhen describing the Afghanistan debate that was once so important to him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBased on our direct interactions with and observations of him, he is someone for whom many jurors will want to identify reasonable doubt,\u201d Hur\u2019s team wrote. \u201cIt would be difficult to convince a jury that they should convict him \u2014 by then a former president well into his eighties \u2014 of a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., who introduced the contempt resolution which failed last week, promised to bring the measure back to the floor later this year when more Republicans are present. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have refiled the resolution and will be calling it up again in a couple of weeks when Congress is back in session and Members return,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p>Another one of President Biden\u2019s appointees has been accused of lying to Congress during their confirmation process. In June, Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/06\/14\/josh-hawley-confronts-public-lands-chief-for-lying-about-involvement-in-ecoterrorism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">confronted<\/a> Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Director Tracy Stone-Manning over her role in a 1989 Idaho tree spiking case. Tree spiking refers to a form of ecoterrorism wherein far-left activists stick metal rods into trees which explode the bark with deadly projectiles when processed for logging.<\/p>\n<p>Stone-Manning had told lawmakers in her written testimony for the job that she had \u201cnever been arrested or charged and to my knowledge I have never been the target of such an investigation.\u201d In 1989, however, she was a primary subject in an Idaho tree-spiking ring that led to a plea deal with federal prosecutors in 1993.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I don\u2019t understand is why we\u2019re not looking at the last three and a half years now,\u201d she said at a hearing with the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee last month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHere\u2019s why,\u201d Hawley said, \u201cit\u2019s because people are killed in these kinds of incidents. It is an act of terrorism. A special agent in charge found that you were involved. You lied to this committee.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Tristan Justice is the western correspondent for The Federalist and the author of Social Justice Redux, a conservative newsletter on culture, health, and wellness. He has also written for The Washington Examiner and The Daily Signal. His work has also been featured in Real Clear Politics and Fox News. Tristan graduated from George Washington University where he majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow him on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at Tristan@thefederalist.com. Sign up for Tristan&#8217;s email newsletter <a href=\"https:\/\/socialjusticeredux.substack.com\/about\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of Republican senators sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland asking him to fire the Justice Department&#8217;s top civil rights official. They accused her of lying under oath during her confirmation process in 2021. The senators claimed that the official, Kristen Clarke, had denied ever being arrested for a violent crime, but later admitted to attacking someone with a knife in 2006. They also alleged that Clarke tried to cover up her false testimony by contacting the man she attacked. The senators are calling for Clarke to be removed from her position due to these allegations. Another Biden appointee, Bureau of Land Management Director Tracy Stone-Manning, has also been accused of lying to Congress about her involvement in a 1989 tree spiking case. Senator Josh Hawley confronted her about this during a hearing last month. Stone-Manning had previously stated that she had never been arrested or charged, but it was later revealed that she was involved in the tree spiking incident. 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