Cruz challenges Biden DOJ pick's contention that she opposes defunding police
joe-biden”>President Biden<, R-Texas, confronted her with a recent article she wrote that, he claimed, proves otherwise. Early in the hearing, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin, D-Ill., attempted to get ahead of the controversy by asking Clarke about a June 2020 Newsweek opinion piece she wrote about the subject. BIDEN DOJ NOMINEE KRISTEN CLARKE DEFENDS PAST CONTROVERSIAL WRITINGS ON…