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EXCLUSIVE: DOJ’s Kristen Clarke Hit With Criminal Referral, Ethics Complaints for ‘Perjury,’ ‘False Statements’
Daily Signal ^ | June 24, 2024 | Mary Margaret Olohan

Posted on 06/24/2024 9:29:15 AM PDT by Red Badger

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Justice Department’s Kristen Clarke, assistant attorney general for civil rights, will be hit with three ethics complaints and a criminal referral Monday, The Daily Signal has learned.

Article III Project is filing both the ethics complaints and criminal referral, which calls upon Attorney General Merrick Garland to open a criminal probe into Clarke on the grounds that she “knowingly and willfully” made “materially false statements” and that she committed “perjury.”

“There is ample evidence to support this referral for false statements and perjury,” Mike Davis, founder and president of Article III Project, said in the criminal referral. Davis’ organization is focused on defending constitutionalist judges, opposing radical judicial nominees, and pushing back on “radical assaults on judicial independence” such as court-packing.

The filings follow an April 30 report from The Daily Signal revealing for the first time that Clarke hid her arrest for a domestic violence incident and its subsequent expungement from investigators when she was awaiting Senate confirmation to her high-ranking Justice Department post.

Her ex-husband, Reginald Avery, has told The Daily Signal that Clarke attacked him with a knife, slicing his finger to the bone, while they were married in 2006. That record was later expunged, The Daily Signal confirmed.

Asked by Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., during her confirmation, “Since becoming a legal adult, have you ever been arrested for or accused of committing a violent crime against any person?” she responded, “No,” according to a 66-page document she submitted under oath to “Questions for the Record” from senators.

Clarke has not responded to requests for comment from The Daily Signal, though the DOJ previously acknowledged receipt of these requests. Following The Daily Signal’s initial report, Clarke told CNN she hid the arrest during her Senate confirmation but then alleged she was the victim of domestic violence at the hands of her ex-husband.

Avery told The Daily Signal he did not abuse his ex-wife.

“Avery has accused Kristen Clarke of a violent crime,” the Article III Project criminal referral states. “He also has alleged that local Maryland police arrested her. Police and court records corroborate the occurrence of the arrest.”

“Most crucially, Kristen Clarke acknowledged it in her statement to reporter Hannah Rabinowitz of CNN,” the criminal referral continues. “Kristen Clarke answered Senator Cotton’s question under oath in a manner contrary to her admission three years later.”

That criminal referral calls Clarke’s conduct “egregious,” arguing that Cotton asked her a straightforward question that she “willfully” and “knowingly” gave a false answer to.

“Kristen Clarke claims that she had an ‘option’ not to disclose this incident,” Davis continues in the referral. “This assertion shows an utter disregard for the role of the United States Senate in evaluating the worthiness of a nominee for confirmation. Neither Kristen Clarke nor the State of Maryland is entitled to decide what information the Senate deserves to know. That prerogative lies with the Senate. Senator Cotton asked a routine question, and Kristen Clarke failed to answer it honestly.”

That referral also points out that Garland has repeatedly stated that “nobody is above the law,” including former President Donald Trump.

“But,” Davis said, “with Garland’s refusal to take any action more than seven weeks after uncontroverted evidence and public reporting of Kristen Clarke’s perjury to the Senate, it is very clear Kristen Clarke is above the law.”

Article III Project also filed ethics complaints with the New York and Washington, D.C., offices of disciplinary counsel, as well as with the DOJ’s Office of Professional Responsibility.

The DOJ and Washington ethics complaints note that Clarke, like every other nominee who requires confirmation by the Senate, had to answer a series of questions under oath in both in writing and verbally.

“Kristen Clarke’s knowingly and willfully false answer to one of these questions constitutes the basis for this complaint,” the complaint to the DOJ states.

The New York ethics complaint accuses Clarke of violating the state’s code of professional conduct that prohibits lawyers from “engaging in illegal conduct that adversely reflects on the lawyer’s honesty, trustworthiness, or fitness as a lawyer.”

It also argues that Clarke’s “unambiguous answer to Senator Cotton’s question was dishonest because she denied an accusation and an arrest that had occurred”—a “misrepresentation” that was “material because such an accusation bears on the character and fitness of a nominee for a powerful government position, especially one that involves enforcement of our laws.”

“Kristen Clarke’s misrepresentation is aggravated by her continuing refusal to acknowledge it three years later,” the New York ethics complaint states. “Instead, she maintains that the Senate was not entitled to know the truth about the July 4, 2006, incident.”

The Daily Signal’s reporting on Clarke prompted calls for her to resign from Utah Sen. Mike Lee, a Republican, the New York Post Editorial Board, and others. In early May, a group of conservative leaders called on Clarke to resign from her leadership position in a letter they sent to the high-ranking DOJ official.

“The American people have lost trust in your ability to lead the Civil Rights Division,” reads the letter to Clarke signed by Advancing American Freedom Executive Director Paul Teller, American Accountability Foundation’s Tom Jones, Students for Life President Kristan Hawkins, and CatholicVote President Brian Burch. “We request that you resign immediately.”

That letter repeatedly references The Daily Signal’s reporting and includes a copy of the original story. It also points to Clarke’s enforcement of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, also known as the FACE Act, against pro-life activists.

“The American people deserve a Civil Rights Division at the U.S. Department of Justice led with honesty and integrity,” the letter says. “Since taking over the Civil Rights Division, you have weaponized the Department of Justice by wielding the FACE Act against pro-life Americans in an unprecedented manner—even while standing idly by as churches and pro-life pregnancy centers are vandalized and Jewish students are unable to attend class on college campuses.”


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: doj; ethics; perjury
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

lol.......knife skills


21 posted on 06/24/2024 4:34:02 PM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray: Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name . )
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To: Red Badger

bttt


22 posted on 06/25/2024 12:20:09 AM PDT by Pajamajan (Pray for our nation. Pray for President Trump. Never be a slave in a new Socialist America.)
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To: newfreep

EXCLUSIVE: DOJ’s Kristen Clarke Asked Ex-Husband to Say She Wasn’t an Abuser During Confirmation Process, Ex Alleges (May 13, 2024)

https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/05/13/exclusive-dojs-kristen-clarke-asked-husband-say-wasnt-abuser-during-confirmation-process-alleges/

Clarke allegedly reached out to her ex-husband Reginald Avery in May 2021, asking him for a statement saying that she was not a domestic abuser during a confirmation process where she did not disclose her past arrest.


“I was seeing another woman,” Avery shared in the May 2021 text message exchange. “She was angry. Attacked me with a knife. I instinctively grabbed it. As I said earlier, I’m not blameless.”

“That’s the story,” Avery insisted. “That’s what happened. She went to jail.”

“Yes, the arrogance has always been there.


23 posted on 06/25/2024 4:56:46 AM PDT by Texas Fossil (Texas is not about where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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To: Texas Fossil
“Yes, the arrogance has always been there."

Sadly, it's embedded in that racist & violent failed culture.

24 posted on 06/25/2024 5:23:24 AM PDT by newfreep ("There is no race problem...just a problem race")
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To: Liz
and her role organizing a 1994 event at Harvard that hosted a professor who accused Jews of persecuting black people are troubling.

LOL. She’s that Illinois nazi from “The Blues Brothers”.

”The Jew is using the negroes for muscle”

25 posted on 06/25/2024 5:29:56 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (IThey intend to kill us. Plan to avoid this.)
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To: Sirius Lee

Biden hand-picked a person for DOJ who “knowingly and willfully made
“materially false statements under oath to Congress”......IOW, she committed “perjury.

Clarke is also the subject of ethics complaints filed with
<><>the New York and Washington, D.C., offices of disciplinary counsel,
<><>and with the DOJ’s Office of Professional Responsibility.


26 posted on 06/25/2024 5:42:22 AM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray: Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name . )
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To: newfreep

Culture?

Race does not define culture. I cannot argue about black street norms, they are a total failure.

You can tell which imprint is made on individuals, most often by how they speak. And what they say or focus on.

I know many fine black friends and family members. Connections that extend back 100 years.


27 posted on 06/25/2024 5:43:57 AM PDT by Texas Fossil (Texas is not about where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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To: Texas Fossil
Uhhhhhh....no!

REALITY101: Black culture is real and is DEFINITELY NOT spectacular.

Example: Black homicides - 95% is black-on-black...and waaaay more than white-on-white.

Example: 80% black homes are fatherless

So many more examples if you open your eyes and see reality.


28 posted on 06/25/2024 5:56:07 AM PDT by newfreep ("There is no race problem...just a problem race")
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To: Liz

Dear Liz,

Some of the posters recently are such DEBBIE DOWNERS that I don’t even want to come here anymore, BUT you, who can inform us of the Truth, are such a pleasant surprise, offering information that is helpful and NOT JUST DOWNRIGHT DEPRESSING, you are a treasure.

Regards.


29 posted on 06/25/2024 6:13:46 AM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: Maris Crane

So sweet——t/y.


30 posted on 06/25/2024 6:42:40 AM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray: Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name . )
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To: newfreep

I have no intention of arguing with you.

I know what the statistics are.

I also know some really upright and honorable black families.


31 posted on 06/25/2024 7:01:34 AM PDT by Texas Fossil (Texas is not about where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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To: Texas Fossil

Thanks for acknowledging the factual reality that black culture is an absolute failure in so many ways.


32 posted on 06/25/2024 10:16:20 AM PDT by newfreep ("There is no race problem...just a problem race")
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