The leader of the Justice Department’s civil rights division, Kristen Clarke, said in an extraordinary personal statement that she was a victim of years-long domestic abuse and chose not to disclose an expunged arrest record from that period during the Senate confirmation process, CNN reports.
Said Clarke: “When given the option to speak about such traumatic incidents in my life, I have chosen not to.
I didn’t believe during my confirmation process and I don’t believe now that I was obligated to share a fully expunged matter from my past.”