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   Attorney General nominee Merrick Garland was pressed to defend Justice   
   Department-nominee Kristen Clarke, who once called Blacks superior, in a   
   tense exchange during his own Senate confirmation hearing Monday.   
      
   "I'm a pretty good judge of what an anti-Semite is, and I do not believe   
   she is an anti-Semite, and I do not believe that she is discriminatory in   
   any sense," Garland fired at Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah.   
      
   Garland brought up Clarke's name on his own volition without being asked   
   about her directly by the conservative senator.   
      
   "Would an individual's past statements as an adult declaring that one   
   racial group is superior to another, would statements like that be   
   relevant to an evaluation of whether such a person should be put in charge   
   of running the Department of Justice's civil rights division?" Lee asked.   
      
   Clarke once wrote in a letter to the Harvard Crimson: "Black infants sit,   
   stand, crawl and walk sooner than whites" and "Melanin endows Blacks with   
   greater mental, physical, and spiritual abilities."   
      
   Clarke has rejected the criticism of the statements as having taken them   
   out of context.   
      
   Clarke would lead Justice Department's civil rights division under   
   Garland, if both are confirmed by the Senate. She would be at the   
   forefront of police reform and other Biden priorities on civil rights   
   reform and combating what Biden's administration believes is systemic   
   racism in the United States.   
      
   https://www.newsmax.com/politics/mikelee-merrickgarland-   
   kristenclarke/2021/02/22/id/1011076/?utm_source=thehill   
      
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