Jeffrey Bossert Clark is an American lawyer who was Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division from 2018 to 2021. In September 2020 he was also appointed acting head of the Civil Division.
What happened to Jeffrey Clark?
Clark resigned from the Justice Department on January 14, 2021. On January 25, 2021, the Justice Department’s Office of Inspector General, Michael E. Horowitz, launched an investigation into whether any former or current DOJ official engaged in an improper attempt to have DOJ seek to alter the outcome of the 2020 Presidential Election. In early August, Rosen and Donoghue told the inspector general and members of the Senate Judiciary Committee that Clark helped Trump attempt to subvert the election. In October 2021, an ethics complaint against Clark, regarding his conduct when attempting to overturn the 2020 election, was filed with the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.
On October 7, 2021, the Senate Judiciary Committee released new testimony and a staff report. They reveal that we were only a half-step away from a full-blown constitutional crisis as President Donald Trump and his loyalists threatened a wholesale takeover of the Department of Justice (DOJ). They also reveal how former Acting Civil Division Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Clark became Trump’s Big Lie Lawyer, pressuring his colleagues in DOJ to force an overturn of the 2020 election. On October 13, 2021, the U.S. House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol subpoenaed Clark for testimony and documents. On December 1, 2021, the committee voted to recommend criminal charges of contempt of Congress against Clark. On February 2, 2022, at an appearance before the committee, he refused to answer any substantive questions, asserting his right against self-incrimination in excess of 100 times.
Where is Jeffrey Clark now?
In August 2021 Clark was named the Chief of Litigation and Director of Strategy for the New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA), which describes itself as a nonpartisan, nonprofit civil rights organization whose goal is to protect constitutional freedoms from violations by the Administrative State.
The NCLA is mainly funded by the Charles Koch Foundation. The organization’s current focus is opposition to vaccine mandates and other Covid-19-related regulations and orders.
In October, after Clark received a congressional subpoena regarding his participation in the January 6 attack on the Capitol, his name disappeared from the NCLA site.
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