{"id":422180,"date":"2021-04-14T16:58:43","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T20:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=422180"},"modified":"2021-04-14T17:02:09","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T21:02:09","slug":"sen-cotton-slams-biden-pick-to-lead-doj-civil-rights-division","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-cotton-slams-biden-pick-to-lead-doj-civil-rights-division\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Cotton slams Biden pick to lead DOJ Civil Rights Division"},"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%2Fsen-cotton-slams-biden-pick-to-lead-doj-civil-rights-division%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=422180&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--><div id=\"attachment_2397620\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2397620\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR). (Photo by DEMETRIUS FREEMAN\/POOL\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>\nUPDATED 1:40 PM PT \u2013 Wednesday, April 14, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) took sharp aim at Joe Biden\u2019s pick to lead the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/crt\">Civil Rights Division<\/a> of the Justice Department by arguing she will radically alter the agency. During a Senate hearing for Kristen Clarke Wednesday, Cotton accused her of \u201calways jumping to conclusions\u201d when it comes to officers using force to protect themselves or others.<\/p>\n<p>The senator also contended officers are the last people who want to use force, especially when it results in death. Cotton suggested the nation\u2019s law enforcement community should fear unjust prosecutions by the DOJ if Clarke is confirmed.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Department of Justice isn&#8217;t a left-wing advocacy organization, but if Kristen Clarke is confirmed it would become one.<\/p>\n<p>Police officers and Americans should be terrified of having a Department of Justice that jumps to conclusions without evidence. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NfKrBjfgNl\">pic.twitter.com\/NfKrBjfgNl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tom Cotton (@SenTomCotton) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenTomCotton\/status\/1382373644555448323?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 14, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cYou are going to have the power of the federal government behind you,\u201d Sen. Cotton stated. \u201cAnd based on your pattern of comments and jumping to conclusions without evidence, every cop in America should be terrified that the Department of Justice is going to jump to a conclusion when they have to make a split-second decision to defend themselves or defend innocent, law-abiding citizens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If confirmed, Clarke will be the first woman and African-American woman to run the Civil Rights Division.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/arrest-made-in-la-cold-case-murder-of-teen-girl\/\">Arrest Made In La. Cold Case Murder Of Teen Girl<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR). (Photo by DEMETRIUS FREEMAN\/POOL\/AFP via Getty Images) OAN NewsroomUPDATED 1:40 PM PT \u2013 Wednesday, April 14, 2021 Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) took sharp aim at Joe &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2276059,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-422180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2276059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}