FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Kristen Clarke, who headed up the Justice Department office that prosecuted pro-lifers for protesting abortion clinics, met with leaders at the Southern Poverty Law Center, which compares mainstream conservative and Christian groups to the Ku Klux Klan, documents suggest.
The meeting may shed light on the animus that Clarke—then the DOJ’s assistant attorney general for civil rights—harbored against conservatives.
According to emails obtained through the Freedom of Information Act by America First Legal and provided to The Daily Signal, Clarke planned to meet with SPLC leadership on Monday, March 6, 2023.
“As you know on Sunday/Monday, Kristen will be in Selma and Montgomery,” Jonathan Smith, deputy assistant attorney general at Clarke’s Civil Rights Division, wrote in a March 2 email to Karen Stevens, a senior policy council at…
