Jeffrey Clark
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. In 2020 and 2021, Clark allegedly helped then-president Donald Trump attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Clark's actions in that endeavor were reviewed by the District of Columbia Bar – the entity authorized by law to pursue attorney discipline and disbarment in the District of Columbia – which recommended discipline to the DC Court of Appeals in July 2022. He was identified as an unindicted co-conspirator in the federal prosecution of Donald Trump over attempts to overturn the 2020 election. On August 14, 2023, he was indicted along with 18 other people in the prosecution related to the 2020 election in Georgia.
Some of the key events about Jeffrey Clark
- 1986Graduated from Harvard Law School
- 1996Joined the U.S. Department of Justice's Environmental and Natural Resources Division
- 2001Became Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Environment and Natural Resources Division
- 2018Appointed as Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division
- 2019Received the Attorney General's Award for Distinguished Service
- 2020Promoted to Acting Assistant Attorney General of the Civil Division at the Department of Justice
- 2020Appointed as Acting Head of the Civil Division at the Department of Justice
- 2020Served as a member of the Trump administration's legal team
- 2020Attempted to use the Department of Justice to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election
- 2020Proposed sending a letter to Georgia officials falsely claiming the DOJ had identified significant concerns about election results
- 2020Participated in a meeting at the White House to discuss strategies for overturning the election results
- 2021Joined the Center for Renewing America as a Senior Fellow
- 2021Pressured then-Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen to declare the election "corrupt" without evidence
- 2021Drafted a letter to Georgia officials suggesting the state legislature could appoint new electors
- 2021Threatened to resign in an effort to pressure DOJ leadership to support false election fraud claims
- 2021Considered a plan to replace the Acting Attorney General with himself to pursue baseless election fraud allegations
- 2022Continued to advocate for election integrity measures
- 2022Refused to answer questions before the House January 6 Committee, citing executive privilege
- 2022Had his home searched by federal agents as part of the investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election
- 2023Was indicted in Georgia on charges related to attempts to subvert the 2020 election results
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