By Paula Reid, Casey Gannon
更新于2026年3月25日，美国东部时间上午11:02
发布于2026年3月25日，美国东部时间上午9:10
美国司法部民权司助理司法部长克里斯滕·克拉克（Kristen Clarke）于2024年12月5日星期四在田纳西州孟菲斯举行的新闻发布会上发言。
George Walker IV/AP/File（图片来源：乔治·沃克四世/美联社/档案照片）
据该组织称，乔·拜登总统时期的前民权司助理司法部长克里斯滕·克拉克（Kristen Clarke）将加入全国有色人种协进会（National Association for the Advancement of Color People, NAACP）担任总法律顾问。
克拉克此前曾是司法部的最高民权律师，领导民权司。她加盟全国有色人种协进会之际，唐纳德·特朗普总统领导下的司法部正加倍努力推进选举和投票权相关工作。
全国有色人种协进会在关于克拉克入职的新闻稿中表示：“此举正值特朗普政府试图削弱民主制度、拆除民权保护措施之际。为应对这一时刻，全国有色人种协进会正在扩大自身能力，并通过聘请这位前司法部高级官员来加强法律辩护工作的投入，以反击（特朗普政府的政策）。”
克拉克于2000年以民权司诉讼律师身份开始在司法部的职业生涯。2006年，她被全国有色人种协进会法律辩护基金（NAACP Legal Defense Fund）聘请，专注于该组织在投票权和选举法方面的工作。在全国有色人种协进会期间，克拉克参与了多起捍卫《选举权法》的案件。
此后，她在纽约州和全国法院处理民权事务。
克拉克在宣布新角色时表示：“全国有色人种协进会一个多世纪以来一直站在正义的前沿，我深感荣幸能在我们民主进程的关键时刻加入这个具有历史意义的组织。”
共和党执政时期，司法部民权司通常较为低调，但特朗普政府却利用该部门逆转了促进多样性、公平和包容的政策，并推行其自身议程。
截至去年4月，克拉克的继任者哈梅特·迪隆（Harmeet Dhillon）自上任以来已将民权司规模削减约70%，以优先实现特朗普政府的目标。
迪隆当时表示，她打算替换这些律师，使部门能够专注于包括根除反基督教偏见、反犹主义以及她所谓的“觉醒意识形态”在内的其他工作。
美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）已联系司法部请求置评。
Biden admin’s top civil rights lawyer joins NAACP as Trump attacks on voting rights escalate
By Paula Reid, Casey Gannon
Updated Mar 25, 2026, 11:02 AM ET
PUBLISHED Mar 25, 2026, 9:10 AM ET
Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division speaks during a news conference Thursday, December 5, 2024, in Memphis, Tennessee.
George Walker IV/AP/File
The former assistant attorney general for civil rights under President Joe Biden, Kristen Clarke, is joining the National Association for the Advancement of Color People (NAACP) as general counsel, according to the organization.
Clarke was previously the top civil rights lawyer at the Justice Department where she led the Civil Rights Division. Her move to the NAACP comes as the Justice Department under President Donald Trump has been redoubling its efforts around elections and voting rights.
“The move comes as the Trump Administration works to erode democratic institutions and dismantle civil rights protections. To meet the moment, the NAACP is expanding its own capabilities and ramping up its investment in its legal advocacy efforts by hiring the former senior Justice Department official to fight back,” the NAACP said in the news release about Clarke’s hire.
Clarke started her career at the Justice Department as a trial attorney for the civil rights division in 2000. In 2006, she was hired by the NAACP Legal Defense Fund to focus on the organization’s work with voting rights and election law. During her time at the NAACP, Clarke worked on several cases defending the Voting Rights Act.
She went on to work on civil rights issues for the state of New York and in courts across the country.
“The NAACP has stood on the front lines of justice for over a century, and I’m deeply honored to join this historic organization at this critical moment in our democracy,” Clarke said in a statement announcing her new role as NAACP general counsel.
The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division is less active during Republican administrations, but the Trump administration has used it to reverse policies that promote diversity, equity and inclusion and enforce its own agenda.
As of last April, Clarke’s successor, Harmeet Dhillon, had slashed the Civil Rights Division by roughly 70% since assuming the role in order to prioritize goals of the Trump administration.
She said at the time she intended to replace those lawyers so the department could focus on efforts that included rooting out anti-Christian bias, antisemitism and what she called “woke ideology,” among other things.
CNN reached out to the Justice Department for comment.