Kristen Clarke, President Biden's nominee to lead the Justice Department's civil rights division, faced attacks from Senate Republicans on Wednesday amid growing national tensions over police killings of Black people and voting rights. Clarke, an alum of the division and current president of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, would be the first Black woman to head the influential wing of the Justice Department. At a confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Republicans criticized Clarke's advocacy as a civil rights leader on policing and voting rights.