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Kristen M. Clarke (born 1975) [1] is an American attorney who has served as the Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division at the United States Department of Justice since May 2021. Clarke previously served as president of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law .
The 2024 election is only the second California Senate race without an incumbent since 1992, the other being the 2016 election following Barbara Boxer's retirement. However, Politico pointed out that the 2016 election had an "early and prohibitive frontrunner" in Kamala Harris while the 2024 election has no clear frontrunner, and thus considers ...
The Senate is divided into three classes to stagger the terms of its members such that one-third of the Senate would be up for re-election every two years. Upon California's admission to the Union in 1850, the state was assigned a Class 1 seat and a Class 3 seat, first elected in 1849.
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Now the marathon campaigns for president, U.S. Senate, House and lots of local and offices are underway, all aimed at the Nov. 5 general election. California will decide whether Biden or Trump ...
Kristen Clarke (center), assistant attorney general for the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, speaks at a news conference in 2021 to announce that the department would be suing the ...
Gavin Newsom appointed interim Democratic Sen. Laphonza Butler, 44, after Feinstein’s death, but she declined to run in either race. One of this year’s Senate races is a special election to ...
The division was established on December 9, 1957, by order of Attorney General William P. Rogers, after the Civil Rights Act of 1957 created the head office of Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights (AAG-CR; appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate). In 2021, Kristen Clarke became the first woman confirmed to the position.