Kristen Clarke, President Biden’s nominee to the assistant attorney general for civil rights in the Justice Department, walked back her past criticism of multiple moderate senators and Justice Brett Kavanaugh in a Judiciary Committee questionnaire submitted late last month.
Clarke’s nomination was advanced out of the Senate Judiciary Committee on a party-line vote Thursday after a contentious hearing in April. But her nomination still hangs in the balance as four key swing-vote senators swill haven’t publicly announced whether they’ll vote to confirm her. Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, Joe…
